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Katalon (selenium) issues with setText on TextArea

I am unable to setText to a TextArea. Do I need to use the full xpath?
The error I am getting is:

=============== ROOT CAUSE =====================

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotInteractableException: element not interactable At object: 'Object Repository/Page_The Mortgage Office/textarea_FundingNotes'

Here are the details of the Object: ' Selected Locator: //textarea[@id='teNotes']

XPath:attributes://textarea[@id='teNotes']
XPath:idRelative://textarea[@id='teNotes']
XPath:position://div[7]/div/textarea
XPath:customAttributes://div[7]/div/textarea

Inspecting it in Chrome:

<textarea name="teNotes" id="teNotes" class="form-control-sm form-control" rows="3" style="resize: none;" maxlength="255" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false"></textarea>

Full XPath:

/html/body/form/div[4]/div/div/div/form/div[4]/div[1]/div/div[3]/div[7]/div/textarea
Solution

  • The problem was that the object was not editable. This means that I couldn't just use sendKeys directly, I had to first Click the object, THEN sendKeys.

    Thank you!

    WebUI.click(findTestObject('TM_Loans/input__OriginalAmount'))

WebUI.sendKeys(findTestObject('TM_Loans/input__OriginalAmount'), '100000')