selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleExcept

Question

I am searching to do a program for fun but i have some problems with selenium and i need some help... This is the programm (i deleted the directory of webdriver because the folder's name contain the name of an other person)

from selenium import webdriver
import webbrowser
import time


def Pass_send_():
    driver=webdriver.Chrome()
    driver.get('chrome://flags/#password_export-enable')


    ricerca=driver.find_element_by_id("search")
    ricerca.send_keys('password export')
    scorritore=driver.find_element_by_class_name('experiment-select')
    scorritore.click()



Pass_send_()

And so the purpose it's easy, it should open a windows, type a text and click a button. everything works but the click doesn't and this is the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "C:\Python34\internet22.py", line 18, in <module>
Pass_send_()
  File "C:\Python34\internet22.py", line 14, in Pass_send_
scorritore.click()
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site- 
   packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 80, in click
    self._execute(Command.CLICK_ELEMENT)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site- 
packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 633, in _execute
    return self._parent.execute(command, params)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site- 
packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site- 
packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in 
check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not interactable

So i am not an expert but it says: element not intercatable? what does it mean and how can i fix it? i would really appreciate a reply...

Answer 1

To send a character sequence to the search box within the webpage chrome://flags/#password_export-enable you need to induce WebDriverWait and you can use the following solution:

• Code Block:

  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  
  options = Options()
  options.add_argument('start-maximized')
  options.add_argument('disable-infobars')
  options.add_argument('--disable-extensions')
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
  driver.get('chrome://flags/#password_export-enable')
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input#search"))).send_keys("password export")
  

• Browser Snapshot: