selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: element not visible while invoking send_keys in ubuntu headless browser through python

To send character sequence to the search box you need to induce WebDriverwait for the desired element to be clickable and you can use either of the following solutions:

• Code Block:

  # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  
  options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
  options.add_argument("start-maximized")
  options.add_argument('disable-infobars')
  options.add_argument('--headless')
  driver=webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
  driver.get("https://www.ripoffreport.com/")
  WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input.header-field#header-search-text"))).send_keys("Pink's Hot Dogs")
  # WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@class='header-field'][@id='header-search-text']"))).send_keys("Pink's Hot Dogs")
  print("Search Text Sent")
  

• Console Output:

  Search Text Sent
  

Cannot reproduce withought the actual url, but you can try a few things:

• sleep a couple of seconds before sending keys (the page might not be loaded)
• it might be worth trying Firefox/geckodriver instead of Chrome; I've had issues before with Chrome as well which do not seem to happen on Firefox.
• Moreover, if you have an adblocker on Chrome when copying x_path etc it can sometimes change the page structure

Hope this helps!

you can try with javaScript

        JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
        executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", webElement);
        executor.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('value', '"+text which you want to enter+"');",webElement);