selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException error using send_keys() from Selenium Python

Question

getting the error of timeout, tried to increase the time to 20, I see the page loading but still get the error and cannot see the email inserted to the field.

Code trials:

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, 'input]'))
)
driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//input[@class=input]').send_keys('test@em.com')

What is the problem?

Answer 1

Try this

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, 'input]'))

element.sendKeys('test@em.com')

or

element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, 'input]'))

element.sendKeys('test@em.com')

Answer 2

To send a character sequence to the element instead of presence_of_element_located() you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following locator strategy:

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//input[@class="input"]'))).send_keys("test@em.com")
  

• 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