selecting element in python selenium

Question

I'm trying to log onto a webpage with python selenium. I've found an element and it is enabled, but when I try to send_keys() to it I get an error. The main thing (I think) in the error output is

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with 

My code is

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import contextlib
with contextlib.closing(webdriver.Firefox()) as driver:
 driver.get('http://www.etoro.com/au')
 elem = driver.find_element_by_class_name('inputUsername')
 print 'enabled:', elem.is_enabled()
 print 'selected:', elem.is_selected()
 elem.send_keys('myusername')

And the output is

enabled: True
selected: False
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "3_trying_again.py", line 10, in <module>
elem.send_keys('ianafterglow')
 File "/Users/ian/miniconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 303, in send_keys
self._execute(Command.SEND_KEYS_TO_ELEMENT, {'value': typing})
 File "/Users/ian/miniconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 385, in _execute
return self._parent.execute(command, params)
 File "/Users/ian/miniconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 173, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
 File "/Users/ian/miniconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 166, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with
Stacktrace:
at fxdriver.preconditions.visible (file:///var/folders/5b/ym07nh6d74gcn_773ynwqkth0000gn/T/tmpN1MV8l/extensions/[email protected]/components/command-processor.js:8959:12)
at DelayedCommand.prototype.checkPreconditions_ (file:///var/folders/5b/ym07nh6d74gcn_773ynwqkth0000gn/T/tmpN1MV8l/extensions/[email protected]/components/command-processor.js:11618:15)
at DelayedCommand.prototype.executeInternal_/h (file:///var/folders/5b/ym07nh6d74gcn_773ynwqkth0000gn/T/tmpN1MV8l/extensions/[email protected]/components/command-processor.js:11635:11)
at DelayedCommand.prototype.executeInternal_ (file:///var/folders/5b/ym07nh6d74gcn_773ynwqkth0000gn/T/tmpN1MV8l/extensions/[email protected]/components/command-processor.js:11640:7)
at DelayedCommand.prototype.execute/< (file:///var/folders/5b/ym07nh6d74gcn_773ynwqkth0000gn/T/tmpN1MV8l/extensions/[email protected]/components/command-processor.js:11582:5)

So, what do I need to do?

• Rupesh Shinde: Try this elem = driver.find_element_by_class_name('inputUsername') action = webdriver.ActionChains(driver) action.click(elm).perform()
• user2472657: fails on the action.click(elem).perform() line with error selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with

Answer 1

To make the username field to be visible, you need to move cursor to the login link:

....
driver.get('http://www.etoro.com/au')
action = webdriver.ActionChains(driver)
action.move_to_element(driver.find_element_by_xpath(
 './/a[@class="top-link"]/span[text()="Login"]'
))
action.perform()
# TODO Need to wait until the `inputUsername` field is visible
elem = driver.find_element_by_class_name('inputUsername')
...

• user2472657: fails on the line './/a[@class="top_link"]/span[text()="Login"]' with error selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":".//a[@class=\"top_link\"]/span[text()=\"Login\"]"}
• falsetru: @user2472657, I cannot reproduce your problem. The code works without the error. FYI, here's the exact code I ran: codepad.org/DfdPxwNG
• user2472657: issue was underscore versus hyphen in top-link. How embarrassing! Thank you.

Answer 2

You can use explicit waits:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
 EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASSNAME, "inputUsername"))
)
...

• user2472657: the suggested fix code runs successfully, but the program fails in the same way as originally at the elem.send_keys('myusername') line with selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with

Answer 3

I know that this problem is solved , I got stuck in similar problem and same error
I have fixed it by just make my script sleep for 2 seconds then resume it was just Connection speed problem

...
time.sleep(2)
...

don't forget to import time module

import time

wish that help anyone in future :D

Answer 4

I had similar issue, selenium was not able to focus and open the login modal. Instead it was focusing on the next element. This was the locator I was using:

elem = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//nav[2]/ul/li[3]/a").click()

I just changed [3] with [2] and it was able to locate the element and open the modal:

elem = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//nav[2]/ul/li[2]/a").click()