While executing scripts getting error as "Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException: Element is disabled and so may not be used for actions"

[Sachu Sunny]

Hi all,

While i am executing below script in Firefox

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class test {

public static void main(String ars[]) throws InterruptedException 

{

WebDriver ch=new FirefoxDriver();

ch.get("https://www.google.co.in/");

Thread.sleep(60);

ch.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='gs_tti0']")).sendKeys("selenium");

}

}

getting error as below

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException: Element is disabled and so may not be used for actions

Command duration or timeout: 17 milliseconds.

please advice me how to resolve this.

[Andreas Tolfsen]

sachus...@gmail.com writes:

> While i am executing below script in Firefox

[…]

> getting error as below
>
> Exception in thread "main"
> org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException: Element is disabled
> and so may not be used for actions Command duration or timeout: 17
> milliseconds.

You cannot send keys to an element that is disabled.

[Chris Merrill]

On 12/8/2013 4:11 AM, Sachu Sunny wrote:
> getting error as below
> Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException: Element is disabled and
> so may not be used for actions
> Command duration or timeout: 17 milliseconds.
>
> please advice me how to resolve this.

A real user can't type text in a disabled field and neither can WebDriver. You either
need to:
- perform the action that a human would perform in order to enable the field
- or, if a human CAN type the text in the field, you probably have the wrong
element. You need to find the correct element.

Chris


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[Piotr Szymanski]

Hello,

-ch.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='gs_tti0']")).sendKeys("selenium");

+ch.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("selenium");

Thanks,

P.

2013/12/9 Chris Merrill <ch...@webperformance.com>

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[saranya]

Hi,

 

Please check for the webelement is visible or enabled  and then proceed to do action over that.

 

Eg.

 

System.out.println(webelement.isenabled());

 

If it returns true then proceed.

 

Thanks,

Saranya

[Vishnu Varma]

Hi Sachu,

If you spy on the "Google Search Text box", you can notice that element is Disabled. In this case, you cannot use XPath. Please use ClassName to send keys and it works fine. Please find the below HTML inspection on Textbox.

input id="gs_htif0" class="gbqfif" disabled="" autocomplete="off"

[Manisha Kaur]

driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("Selenium");