Unable to send keys to the text box in Selenium Web Driver C#

Question

I want to send keys to the text area but I am not able to send the keys. It shows error as Element must not be hidden, disabled or read-only

My code is

IWebElement userid = FamosDriver.WebDriver.FindElement(By.Id("SMSBody"));
                userid.SendKeys("Test");

Please let me know, how to send keys to the text area. its a blocker for me. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The exception message states why you cannot call SendKeys(...) . Most likely there is a race condition between Selenium and JavaScript executing on the page. The solution is to use an explicit wait before calling SendKeys(...) :

var wait = new WebDriverWait(FamosDriver.WebDriver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
var userid = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(ById("SMSBody")));

userid.SendKeys("test");

The assumption is if you wait until you can click the element, then you can interact with it in other ways.