title: python selenium sending keys to readonly text box
body: <p>I am trying to send keys to the below field using below python selenium code </p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;input type="text" name="date_startDateSql" readonly="" class="EditableRequiredField" onfocus="setday(this)"&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>Selenium Python Code : </p>
  
  <p><code>element=driver.find_element_by_name('date_startDateSql')
   element.send_keys('12/10/2017')</code></p>
  
  <p>I am not getting any error or exception but not able to send keys into this element.I am new to python selenium and would appreciate if someone could advise how to send keys to the fields that are readonly. </p>