Disabled TextBoxes
Sometimes the web pages may have the Textbox Fields which are disabled by default, which means that It won’t accept any keyboard interaction.
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How to handle disabled Text Box Element using Selenium WebDiver?
- Element may allow typing values after clicking that element .So We can use first element.click() method and then use element.sendKeys().
- Enable that TextBox using Javascript and then use sendKeys().
When we try to interact with that element using Selenium WebDriver, then it throws
org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotInteractableException: element not interactable
Here is the JavaScript code to enable the element. Once it’s enabled, using sendKeys () we can type values in that selected textbox.
