Selenium element not interactable with same id

Question

I have a base page class like this

public class BasePage{
    @FindBy(id = "select2-ccnl-container")
    protected WebElement ccnlSelect;

    public void clickSettingCcnl(){
        ccnlSelect.click();
    }
}

then i created 2 class Page1 and Page2 both extending BasePage. those are 2 different pages containing an element with that id. When i use the clickSettingCcnl() in a test on Page1 everything is ok.

But the same thing on Page2 gave me org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotInteractableException: element not interactable

The element is visible and clickable on Page1 and so it seems on Page2.

that's right i've updated the question, the item is exactly the same on the 2 pages i don't understand why they have different behaviour — Frenk, Nov 30 '21 at 14:19
Make the `WebElement ccnlSelect` public or at least not protected. — pburgr, Dec 01 '21 at 08:48
More about `protected` https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8637781/what-does-the-protected-modifier-mean — pburgr, Dec 01 '21 at 08:55

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '21 at 11:44

The element with said id was inside another one, in Page2 it had a class added dynamically that set its dimension to 0 but i didn't notice it because of the parent element hiding this transformation.

By removing that class it got back to a dimension > 0 and hence clickable by Selenium

Selenium element not interactable with same id

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