element not interactable for the Gmail password field Selenium WebDriver using java

Question

I'm currently trying to log in to my test Gmail box. The login is ok but for the password field I always get an:

ElementNotInteractableException: element not interactable.

I used different xpath's / id's (they are quite explicit) but it was not helpful. The code is simple:

public class OpenGmail {
    public static void main(String[] args){
        System.setProperty ("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Chromedriver\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
        WebDriver wd = new ChromeDriver();
        try {
            wd.get("https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui");
            wd.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@type='email']")).sendKeys("test@gmail.com");
            wd.findElement(By.id("identifierNext")).click();
//Variant1
            wd.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@type='password']")).sendKeys("qwerty123");
//Variant2
           wd.findElement(By.id("password")).sendKeys("qwerty123");


            System.out.println("clicked");
            wd.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@class='whsOnd zHQkBf']")).sendKeys("qwerty123");
        }catch (Exception e){
            System.out.println(e);
        }
    }
}

I tried to analyze the html and there is aria-hidden="true" in the WebElement:

<input type="password" class="whsOnd zHQkBf" jsname="YPqjbf" autocomplete="current-password" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0" aria-label="Enter your password" name="password" autocapitalize="off" dir="ltr" data-initial-dir="ltr" data-initial-value="">
<div jsname="YRMmle" class="AxOyFc snByac" aria-hidden="true">Enter your password</div>

Do I understand right that the WebElement is considered hidden by WebDriver?

Is it possible to send data to this field by JS, for example? I wanted to try setAttribute JavaScriptexecutor setAttribute value on selenium but I've never used JS before.

Welcome to SO. Please take the time to read [ask]. It will help you craft solid questions that will hopefully get useful answers. FWIW: gmail is notoriously difficult to automate via webdriver; consider using the gmail API. YMMV. — orde, Oct 03 '19 at 00:12
Thanks! I will form my future questions more in line to the How to. I am trying to master the API also but for today the answer from @frianH is more handy for my purpose. — Meer Distel, Oct 03 '19 at 08:50

frianH · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-03T06:09:52.757

For password input you mean in gmail sign in pages, you can use this locator: By.name("password") and it seem like you need wait this element. First, following import:

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

And try the bellow code:

wd.get("https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui");

//wait email input
WebElement email = new WebDriverWait(wd, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.name("identifier")));
email.sendKeys("test@gmail.com");
wd.findElement(By.id("identifierNext")).click();

//wait password input
WebElement password = new WebDriverWait(wd, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.name("password")));
password.sendKeys("qwerty123");
System.out.println("clicked");

element not interactable for the Gmail password field Selenium WebDriver using java

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