title: getting cannot focus element in chrome and edge using java/selenium
body: <p>I am getting a cannot focus element error when running my test in chrome and edge in FF it works fine.   I have tried posted resolutions but to no avail.   I am not sure what to do about this.  Hoping someone out there can help.   Thanks in advance.</p>
  
  <pre><code>driver.findElement(By.linkText("Add")).click();
  List &lt;WebElement&gt; groups = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[1]/section/div/article/form/fieldset/div[3]/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/select"))).getOptions();
  groups.get(3).click();
  JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
  WebElement groupRole = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[1]/section/div/article/form/fieldset/div[3]/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/label[2]"));
  js.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", groupRole);
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[1]/section/div/article/form/fieldset/div[3]/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/label[2]")).sendKeys(" ");
  // Check to see if the user should be made active and set active checkbox to on if value in file is "active"
  if (activeFlag.equals("active"))
  {
      driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[1]/section/div/article/form/fieldset/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div/div/input")).sendKeys(" ");
  } 
  // If the user role is to be admin then set the Site role to Administrator
  if (userLevel.equals("admin"))
  {
      List &lt;WebElement&gt; roles = new Select(driver.findElement(By.name("community_role"))).getOptions();
      roles.get(1).click();
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the stack trace:</p>
  
  <pre><code> Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: cannot focus element
        (Session info: chrome=47.0.2526.106)
        (Driver info: chromedriver=2.20.353145 (343b531d31eeb933ec778dbcf7081628a1396067),platform=Windows NT 10.0 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
      Command duration or timeout: 81 milliseconds
      Build info: version: '2.48.2', revision: '41bccdd', time: '2015-10-09 19:59:12'
      System info: host: 'Janet-PC', ip: '192.168.56.1', os.name: 'Windows 8.1', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.3', java.version: '1.7.0_80-ea'
      Session ID: 0a9dbd54a81a42a4178b25b95bb14f63
      Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
      Capabilities [{platform=WIN8_1, acceptSslCerts=true, javascriptEnabled=true, browserName=chrome, chrome={userDataDir=C:\Users\Janet\AppData\Local\Temp\scoped_dir7508_15608}, rotatable=false, locationContextEnabled=true, mobileEmulationEnabled=false, version=47.0.2526.106, takesHeapSnapshot=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true, databaseEnabled=false, handlesAlerts=true, browserConnectionEnabled=false, webStorageEnabled=true, nativeEvents=true, hasTouchScreen=false, applicationCacheEnabled=false, takesScreenshot=true}]
          at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
          at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
          at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
          at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
          at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:206)
          at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:158)
          at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:647)
          at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:326)
          at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.sendKeys(RemoteWebElement.java:121)
          at Viddler_create_user.createUser.test(createUser.java:244)
          at Viddler_create_user.createUser.setUpBeforeClass(createUser.java:126)
          at Viddler_create_user.createUser.main(createUser.java:64)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is another stack trace.   I am actually getting the error when trying to click the submit button not the active flag.  I had already done the actions steps which I will also provide.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: cannot focus element
    (Session info: chrome=47.0.2526.106)
    (Driver info: chromedriver=2.20.353145 (343b531d31eeb933ec778dbcf7081628a1396067),platform=Windows NT 10.0 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
  Command duration or timeout: 52 milliseconds
  Build info: version: '2.48.2', revision: '41bccdd', time: '2015-10-09 19:59:12'
  System info: host: 'Janet-PC', ip: '192.168.56.1', os.name: 'Windows 8.1', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.3', java.version: '1.7.0_80-ea'
  Session ID: f332b496aa54d581c764f7328e770e65
  Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
  Capabilities [{platform=WIN8_1, acceptSslCerts=true, javascriptEnabled=true, browserName=chrome, chrome={userDataDir=C:\Users\Janet\AppData\Local\Temp\scoped_dir2072_18936}, rotatable=false, locationContextEnabled=true, mobileEmulationEnabled=false, version=47.0.2526.106, takesHeapSnapshot=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true, databaseEnabled=false, handlesAlerts=true, browserConnectionEnabled=false, webStorageEnabled=true, nativeEvents=true, hasTouchScreen=false, applicationCacheEnabled=false, takesScreenshot=true}]
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:206)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:158)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:647)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:326)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.sendKeys(RemoteWebElement.java:121)
      at Viddler_create_user.createUser.test(createUser.java:244)
      at Viddler_create_user.createUser.setUpBeforeClass(createUser.java:126)
      at Viddler_create_user.createUser.main(createUser.java:64)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
          actions.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[1]/section/div/article/form/input[2]")));
          actions.click();
  //      actions.sendKeys(" ");
          actions.build().perform();
  </code></pre>