“Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with” but another is?

Question

I\'ve created another question which I think is the cause for this error: Why does the Selenium Firefox Driver consider my modal not displayed when the parent has overflow:h

Answer 1

In my case the element was already present in the page but it was disabled, so this didn't work (python):

wait.until(lambda driver: driver.find_element_by_id("myBtn"))
driver.find_element_by_id("myBtn").click()

it failed with error:

“Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with"

To solve my problem, I had to wait a couple of seconds ( time.sleep(5) ) until the element became visible.

You can also enable the element using JavaScript, a python example:

driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('myBtn').disabled='' ")
driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('myBtn').click() ")