I saw plenty of questions / answer on this ElementNotVisibleException issue with selenium. The best code I have done so far is the following :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
url = "http://www.cfnews.net/user/login"
driver.get(url)
print "Got url."
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
login_form = wait.until(EC.invisibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "user-login")), "pbm")
print "Element located."
displayed = login_form.is_displayed()
print "login_form.is_displayed() = ", displayed
login_form.send_keys("a")
which give the following output :
Got url.
Element located.
login_form.is_displayed() = False
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ElementNotVisibleException Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-110-d45e06b37320> in <module>()
12 displayed = login_form.is_displayed()
13 print "login_form.is_displayed() = ", displayed
---> 14 login_form.send_keys("a")
/Users/romain/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.pyc in send_keys(self, *value)
345 value = self._upload(local_file)
346
--> 347 self._execute(Command.SEND_KEYS_TO_ELEMENT, {'value': keys_to_typing(value)})
348
349 # RenderedWebElement Items
/Users/romain/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.pyc in _execute(self, command, params)
492 params = {}
493 params['id'] = self._id
--> 494 return self._parent.execute(command, params)
495
496 def find_element(self, by=By.ID, value=None):
/Users/romain/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.pyc in execute(self, driver_command, params)
234 response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)
235 if response:
--> 236 self.error_handler.check_response(response)
237 response['value'] = self._unwrap_value(
238 response.get('value', None))
/Users/romain/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.pyc in check_response(self, response)
190 elif exception_class == UnexpectedAlertPresentException and 'alert' in value:
191 raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace, value['alert'].get('text'))
--> 192 raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
193
194 def _value_or_default(self, obj, key, default):
ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not visible
(Session info: chrome=54.0.2840.98)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.25.426935 (820a95b0b81d33e42712f9198c215f703412e1a1),platform=Mac OS X 10.12.0 x86_64)
So, the page is downloaded, the html is got by the driver, but it is not possible to send any key. There is also the answer here : Selenium Element not visible exception
Which proposes to use ActionChain, but I tried without success :(
If I do :
driver.page_source
I got the html :
u'<!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/"><head>\n \n \n<title>Ouverture de session / Utilisateur - l\'actualit\xe9 du capital investissement : transactions LBO, M&A, Venture France - Corporate Finance et Private Equity</title>\n<meta name="description" content="CFNEWS est le premier site \xe0 proposer actualit\xe9s et r\xe9f\xe9rentiels du corporate finance en France sur les...etc...
