Hi Megala,
As [1] says, sending keys to a hidden element is a special use case.
Selenium throws this exception because such that in real scenario user
isn't entering text into hidden inputs as such. Hence "file input" should
be treated as a special case. You may also need to enable a File Detector
if you are uploading to a remote server as in [2].
In provided code sample, It has no inline code to set the element hidden.
May be external css/js making it hidden.
You may need to make the element visible and apply sendKeys().
((JavascriptExecutor) webDriver).executeScript("document.getElementById('
selected-file').style.display='';");
//.....apply sendKeys()
((JavascriptExecutor) webDriver).executeScript("document.getElementById('
selected-file').style.display='none';");
[1]
https://github.com/seleniumhq/selenium-google-code-issue-archive/issues/7625
[2] https://saucelabs.com/resources/articles/selenium-file-upload
Thanks,
Rasika
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Megala Uthayakumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to write a UI test case in selenium which requires to send the
> keys to invisible file element in UI. In a normal scenario, user selects
> the file using a file browser and when the user selects a file, the
> selected file will be automatically passed to that file UI element.
> Following is the code fragment that is used for this purpose. In this I
> need to send keys to element with id "selected-file".
>
> <div class="input-group input-wrap file-upload-control">
> <input type="text" class="form-control" readonly="">
> <input type="file" class="form-control" accept=".zip" id =
> "selected-file" name="selected-file">
> <div class="input-group-btn">
> <button class="btn browse" type="button" title="Browse File">
> <i class="fw fw-file-browse" aria-hidden="true"></i>
> <span class="hidden-xs"><%= i18n.localize("browse")%></span>
> </button>
> </div>
> <div class="input-group-btn">
> <button class="btn btn-default btn-primary asset-upload"
> type="button" title="Upload">
> <i class="fw fw-upload" aria-hidden="true"></i>
> <span class="hidden-xs"><%= i18n.localize("upload")%></span>
> </button>
> </div>
> </div>
>
> Selenium finds this element but it does not allow to send the keys by
> throwing and exception "Element is not currently visible and so may not be
> interacted with". How can I write a test case for this scenario?
>
> Any helps on this is highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Megala
>
> Megala Uthayakumar
>
> Software Engineer
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