Selenium C# ElementNotVisibleException: element not interactable but the element is actually visible

Question

I\'m using Selenium.WebDriver for C# to ask a question on Quora just typing my question in notepad.

Everything worked fine since I had to post it.

To post it

Answer 1

As per the HTML you have shared to click on the element with text as Add Question as the element is within a Modal Dialog you need to induce WebDriverWait for the desired ElementToBeClickable and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies as solutions:

• LinkText:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20)).Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(By.LinkText("Add Question"))).Click();
  

• CssSelector:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20)).Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(By.CssSelector("span[id$='_submit_question']>a.submit_button.modal_action"))).Click();
  

• XPath:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20)).Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(By.XPath("//span[contains(@id,'_submit_question')]/a[@class='submit_button modal_action' and contains(.,'Add Question')]"))).Click();