Getting an error i.e. org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: You may only interact with visible elements.

@NaukhaizAhmad commented on Thu Jul 20 2017

OS:
Windows 7 64-bit
Selenium Version:
Selenium web driver 3.4.0
Browser:
HtmlUnitDriver (htmlunit-driver-2.26.jar)

Expected Behavior -

Sample test script should work fine with the BrowserVersion argument.

Actual Behavior -

Sample script works fine with HtmlUnitDriver but gives an error whenever a browser version is specified with the HtmlUnitDriver

Steps to reproduce -

sample code is as below:

package test1;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.BrowserVersion;

public class SampleTest {

public SampleTest()
{
	
}
@Test

public void verify()
{
            //WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver(); -- works fine in this case
	WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver(BrowserVersion.FIREFOX_38);
	
	driver.get("http://www.google.com");
	System.out.println(driver.getTitle());

	 driver.findElement(By.name("q")).clear();
	    driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("selenium");
	    driver.findElement(By.name("btnG")).click();
	    System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
	    String abc = driver.getTitle();
	    Assert.assertTrue(abc.contains("selenium"));
	    
	driver.quit();
}

}

The output error which i'm getting is,

[TestNG] Running:
C:\Users\naukhaiz.ahmad\AppData\Local\Temp\testng-eclipse--1506748139\testng-customsuite.xml

Google
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:39 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:6925] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:39 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:7638] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:39 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:10007] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:39 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:10543] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:39 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:22616] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:39 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:26696] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:39 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:27142] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:40 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:923] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:40 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:1636] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:40 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:4005] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:40 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:4541] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:40 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:10036] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:40 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:10528] Error in expression; ':' found after identifier "progid".
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:40 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:13846] Error in expression. (Invalid token " ". Was expecting one of: , "inherit", , , , , , <LENGTH_PX>, <LENGTH_CM>, <LENGTH_MM>, <LENGTH_IN>, <LENGTH_PT>, <LENGTH_PC>, <ANGLE_DEG>, <ANGLE_RAD>, <ANGLE_GRAD>, <TIME_MS>, <TIME_S>, <FREQ_HZ>, <FREQ_KHZ>, <RESOLUTION_DPI>, <RESOLUTION_DPCM>, , , , .)
Jul 20, 2017 6:07:40 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultCssErrorHandler error
WARNING: CSS error: 'https://www.google.com.pk/?gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=GatwWY2dOcyuUojqnYAG' [1:13870] Error in expression. (Invalid token " ". Was expecting one of: , "inherit", , , , , , <LENGTH_PX>, <LENGTH_CM>, <LENGTH_MM>, <LENGTH_IN>, <LENGTH_PT>, <LENGTH_PC>, <ANGLE_DEG>, <ANGLE_RAD>, <ANGLE_GRAD>, <TIME_MS>, <TIME_S>, <FREQ_HZ>, <FREQ_KHZ>, <RESOLUTION_DPI>, <RESOLUTION_DPCM>, , , , .)
FAILED: verify
org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: You may only interact with visible elements
Build info: version: '2.46.0', revision: '87c69e2', time: '2015-06-04 16:16:47'
System info: host: 'SS01-NBK-035', ip: '10.1.18.37', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_51'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
at org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitWebElement.verifyCanInteractWithElement(HtmlUnitWebElement.java:280)
at org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitWebElement.click(HtmlUnitWebElement.java:138)
at test1.phantomTest.verify(phantomTest.java:68)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:84)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:714)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:901)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:1231)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:127)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:111)
at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:767)
at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:617)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:334)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:329)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:291)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:240)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1224)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1149)
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1057)
at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:132)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:230)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:76)

===============================================
Default test
Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Skips: 0

===============================================
Default suite
Total tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Skips: 0

[TestNG] Time taken by org.testng.reporters.XMLReporter@28864e92: 16 ms
[TestNG] Time taken by org.testng.reporters.EmailableReporter2@1888ff2c: 7 ms
[TestNG] Time taken by org.testng.reporters.jq.Main@7cdbc5d3: 42 ms
[TestNG] Time taken by org.testng.reporters.SuiteHTMLReporter@33a10788: 46 ms
[TestNG] Time taken by org.testng.reporters.JUnitReportReporter@357246de: 6 ms
[TestNG] Time taken by [FailedReporter passed=0 failed=0 skipped=0]: 8 ms

Please suggest a solution or a way around.

Start by reproducing the sample with HtmlUnitDriver(BrowserVersion.FIREFOX_38), then inspect HtmlUnitWebElement.java at verifyCanInteractWithElement and the click path shown in the stack trace. Done means the specified browser version can run the sample without ElementNotVisibleException, while the default driver behavior remains intact.