selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot focus element

Question

I am new automation and I am using selenium with python and got stuck.

I am trying to upload the document using sendkeys in selenium but getting this error.

Error -selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot focus element.

Section where i am trying to upload the document ::

Below is the html code:

<spane class="uk-form-file md-btn" style="width:70%;height: 50%">
                                                Upload Document
<input type="file" ngf-select="" id="picture_ids" class="md-input ng-pristine ng-invalid ng-invalid-required ng-touched" onchange="angular.element(this).scope().imageUpload(this.files,'picture','document')" name="picture" ng-model="statusUpdate.document" style="width: 100%;" ng-required="true" required="required">
<br>
</spane>

and corresponding Selenium code:

uploaddoc=wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//spane[@class='uk-form-file md-btn']")))
uploaddoc.send_keys("C:/PycharmProjects/Auc/dummy.pdf")

Answer 1

You are trying to sendKEys to a span element ,

instead you have to use input element.

try using :

uploaddoc=wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//input[@id='picture_ids']")))
uploaddoc.send_keys("C:/PycharmProjects/Auc/dummy.pdf")