Java webdriver: Element not visible exception

Question

I\'m having the following problem. I have a dropdown that is hidden so when I make the Select and run the test i get the following error:

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Answer 1

In addition to the reasons and issues raised by the earlier answers, I encountered another cause worth mentioning. In my case, a JavaScript on the page had to run after clicking a link on the page in order for the elements that I wanted to access to become visible. That's ok as long as your driver has JavaScript enabled. In my case, I was running without JavaScript, so even though the link was "clicked" programmatically, the elements were not becoming visible. I was using HtmlUnitDriver with the default settings. Ultimately I switched to ChromeDriver. (You can enable JavaScript on HtmlUnitDriver, but that - for other reasons - was not enough for me in my case.)