Watir is able to see element, but can't interact with it

Question

My html structure is follow:

<input name="ctl00$ContentPane$Password" type="password" id="ctl00_ContentPane_Password">

From the UI this is how it looks:

My ruby script is follow:

browser.text_field(:id => 'ctl00_ContentPane_Password').wait_until_present(10) - returns true

...well then this command:

browser.text_field(:id => 'ctl00_ContentPane_Password').set ('test') - returns error message

Session: [Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException] unable to locate element, using {:id=>"ctl00_ContentPane_Password", :tag_name=>"input or textarea", :type=>"(any text type)"}

Anyone is familiar with these type of ridiculous issues with Watir?

Answer 1

Then element is not visible. This happen because there might be two element with the same id and first one is hidden. So write this code and check it.

 browser.text_fields(:id => 'ctl00_ContentPane_Password')[1].set 'test'

Remember, you don't need to use wait_until_present because waiting is automatic

Answer 2

browser.input(id: 'ctl00_ContentPane_Password').send_keys('your-text')