driver.findElement(By.id("renderForm")).clear(); gives error message.

Question

ERROR MESSAGE WHEN TRYING TO CLEAR A TEXT BOX:

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using 

 

driver.findElement(By.id("renderForm")).clear();   Here renderForm is ID of Text Box.

 

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException: invalid element state: Element is not currently interactable and may not be manipulated

  (Session info: chrome=50.0.2661.102)

  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.21.371459 (36d3d07f660ff2bc1bf28a75d1cdabed0983e7c4),platform=Windows NT 6.2 x86) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

Command duration or timeout: 24 milliseconds

Build info: version: '2.53.0', revision: '35ae25b', time: '2016-03-15 16:57:40'

System info: host: 'udhai', ip: '192.168.1.4', os.name: 'Windows 8', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.2', java.version: '1.8.0_91'

Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver

Capabilities [{applicationCacheEnabled=false, rotatable=false, mobileEmulationEnabled=false, chrome={chromedriverVersion=2.21.371459 (36d3d07f660ff2bc1bf28a75d1cdabed0983e7c4), userDataDir=C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Temp\scoped_dir10084_1752}, takesHeapSnapshot=true, databaseEnabled=false, handlesAlerts=true, hasTouchScreen=false, version=50.0.2661.102, platform=WIN8, browserConnectionEnabled=false, nativeEvents=true, acceptSslCerts=true, locationContextEnabled=true, webStorageEnabled=true, browserName=chrome, takesScreenshot=true, javascriptEnabled=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true}]

Session ID: 6ed5741b953bfed7ed0e0483069744a3

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:206)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:158)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:678)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:327)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.clear(RemoteWebElement.java:140)

at newpackage.MyClass.main(MyClass.java:125)

 

Answer 1

make sure that element is not disabled/its of the tagName input and type is of text.

Comments

Yes its true ,The element Textbox is disabled.  I tried various methods to enable the text box but not able to Enable it.Is the following correct to enable the text box.

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].enabled = true", personalinfo_email_textbox);

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Try forcing your value into textbox.

((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].value='[email protected]'",  personalinfo_email_textbox);

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Thanks Mayur.   I got the solution to the problem.Yes it was Disabled .That's true.But the reason I could not enable it using

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].enabled = true", personalinfo_email_textbox);

was that something is wrong with the locator id "renderForm".I am sure I copied it correctly using inspect element.

Now I tried with name instead of id and its working fine.Both enabling and Clearing.

Thanks Mayur for your answer.

Regards
Uday