ElementNotInteracable Exception for Selenium Chrome webdriver

[Kushal Kumaran]

emagnun <soorajspadmanabhan at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm using latest python and latest Selenium chrome webdriver. I'm
> trying to have a simple code to search in youtube but I'm getting the
> below error. Can anyone help me?
>
> File "search.py", line 8, in searchBox.click()
> Selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message:
> element not interactable
>

Try checking what kind of element it finds for you (perhaps by logging
searchBox.tag_name).  There might be multiple elements matching the
search criteria.

> #MyCodeStartsHere
> from selenium import webdriver
>
> driver = webdriver.Chrome()
> driver.get('https://youtube.com')
>
> searchBox = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="search"]')
> if searchBox.is_enabled():
>     searchBox.click()
>     searchBox.send_keys("youtube test")
>     searchButton =
> driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="search-icon-legacy"]/yt-icon')
>     searchButton.click()
> else:
>     print("What the heck")
> #MyCodeEndsHere

-- 
regards,
kushal