ElementNotInteractableException - trying to click on a element using Selenium Python

Question

I'm facing an error trying to click on an element as follows:

raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable (Session info: chrome=104.0.5112.80)`

Code trials:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"//input[@id='idSIButton9']").click()

Html:

Let me share the URL : https://vollee-dev.azurewebsites.net/ — Umme, Aug 10 '22 at 12:50
Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking. — Community, Aug 10 '22 at 13:05
for the url : vollee-dev.azurewebsites.net , I am trying write python automation script to login. for this line of code (SignIn) : driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"//input[@id='idSIButton9']").click() I get the above error. — Umme, Aug 10 '22 at 13:26
Ok, I see a login page there, 2 buttons - login & signup, and another alt-logins with Google/Ms. What are you trying to achieve there? Login? Signup? I see no element with `id = idSIButton9`. — Barry the Platipus, Aug 10 '22 at 17:56
I am trying to login with alt-logins with Ms. After entering email and password I want to click on signin for which the xpath is id="idSIButton9" then i get the error — Umme, Aug 11 '22 at 05:19

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 10 '22 at 11:12

As per the HTML:

button

The element is a <button> tag not an <input> tag. So (By.XPATH,"//input[@id='idSIButton9']") may not work.

Solution

To click on the clickable 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, "button.button.bits[type='button']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@class='button bits' and text()='Buy Now']"))).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

ElementNotInteractableException - trying to click on a element using Selenium Python

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