Unable to enter text to input type on Webpage using Selenium Java

Question

Uploaded my entire webpage on which my test is failing here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WHcwpQFi5Cxh1q1MupQEuSPk6CPZs2GC/view?usp=sharing

Below is my Selenium Java

Answer 1

I think the element which you needed is present on the DOM, but it is not in a state that you can interact with them.

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
wait.ignoring(StaleElementReferenceException.class).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("crtestrequest-cr_app_name")));
WebLement input = driver.findElement(By.id("crtestrequest-cr_app_name"))
input.click();
input.clear();
input.sendKeys("123");

or

for(int i=0; i<=2;i++){
  try{
     WebLement input = driver.findElement(By.id("crtestrequest-cr_app_name"))
     Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
     actions.moveToElement(input).perform();
     input.click();
     break;
   } catch (StaleElementReferenceException e) {
           System.out.println("Trying to recover from a stale element :" + e.getMessage());
   }
}

Answer 2

Instead of invoking sendKeys() to the <label> you need to invoke on the <input> element and ideally to click() on the element you need to use WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• cssSelector:

  WebElement element = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("div.row div.field-crtestrequest-cr_app_name>label[for='crtestrequest-cr_app_name']")));
  element.click();
  element.clear();
  element.sendKeys("Allocation");
  

• xpath:

  WebElement element = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//div[@class='row']//div[contains(@class, 'field-crtestrequest-cr_app_name')]/label[@for='crtestrequest-cr_app_name']")));
  element.click();
  element.clear();
  element.sendKeys("Allocation");
  

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References

You can find a couple of relevant discussions on ElementNotInteractableException in:

• Selenium WebDriver throws Exception in thread “main” org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotInteractableException
• org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotInteractableException: Element is not reachable by keyboard: while sending text to FirstName field in Facebook

Answer 3

I have been trying past 24 hours to get this to work and finally did.

Before, I trigger the Search Assests button as visible in my video @ 1.11 minutes I tried the below code which worked.

WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.id("crtestrequest-cr_app_code"));
JavascriptExecutor exec = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
exec.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", ele);
driver.findElement(By.id("crtestrequest-cr_app_code")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.id("crtestrequest-cr_app_code")).sendKeys("Allocation");