selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable while interacting with element using Selenium and Python

Question

Html snapshot:

DOM which indicates the cl_login tag is under parent div wrapper class

c24-uli-input-wrapper c24-uli-input-wrapper-email c24-uli-input-info style-scope unified-login

Locator using xpath:

enteremail=self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//input[@id='cl_login']")

Output:

raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable

Any one help to resolve the issue?

Answer 1

To click on the <input> element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "label[for='cl_login']"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//label[@for='cl_login']"))).click()
  

• Note: You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC