Button click using Selenium not actionable

Question

I am trying to fill in a registration form and click submit. But Selenium says the Registration button is not actionable. I have tried using actionchains and a couple of other techniques but generally get the same error.

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable

My code...

driver.get('https://discover.workato.com/automate-2022/p/1?utm_source=Automate+2022&utm_medium=employee+referral&utm_campaign=MCoblentz')
time.sleep(3)

first_name = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="FirstName"]')
first_name.send_keys(line[1])

skipping a few more fields to the button click (and neither the by class name or the xpath work)...

Button = driver.find_element(By.class name("mktoButtonWrap"))
#    Button = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="mktoForm_3468"]/div[17]/span')

Button.click()

For the life of me, I can't figure out:

1. Why the button is not actionable and what I need to do to click it. (Major problem)

2. Why Python won't run with the following find_element line (minor annoyance)

   Button = driver.find_element(By.xpath('//*[@id="mktoForm_3468"]/div[17]/span')
   

Python is throwing an error that

'AttributeError: type object 'By' has no attribute 'xpath' 

But I'm initializing with:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

Answer 1

Your syntax is incorrect. It should be:

Button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="mktoForm_3468"]/div[17]/span')

If you import By correctly (from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By), your IDE should autocorrect and show correct options:

Answer 2

You need to consider a couple of things here as follows:

• Instead of:

  Button = driver.find_element(By.class name("mktoButtonWrap"))
  

  It should have been:

  Button = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "mktoButtonWrap")
  

  Similarly,

  Button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="mktoForm_3468"]/div[17]/span')
  

• Further, this error message...

  selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: element not interactable
  

  indicates that the desired element is not interactable.

---

Solution

To click on Register you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using XPATH:

  driver.get("https://discover.workato.com/automate-2022/p/1?utm_source=Automate+2022&utm_medium=employee+referral&utm_campaign=MCoblentz")
  driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//button[@class='mktoButton' and text()='Register']"))))
  

• 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