title: Selenium Webdriver unable to access web element on Internet Explorer 8 - shown as disabled
body: <p>Setup Details:
  Webdriver 2.39
  IEDriverServer 2.39</p>
  
  <p>I'm running Selenium automation on an internal site. The code works fine on Firefox 27 but there's an issue on IE8</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to first clear and enter text in a text field on IE. This fails on IE with the error "Element must not be hidden, disabled or read-only." I checked the element properties on IE and it does indeed show enabled as False, even though the element is plainly available. On Firefox, enabled is correctly set to True.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried to use Xpath and sendkeys but they don't work. Here what I tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@name='tagName']")).Clear(); - not working
  driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@name='tagName']")).SendKeys(tagName); - not working
  driver.FindElement(By.Id("tagName")).SendKeys(Keys.Control); - not working
  driver.FindElement(By.Id("tagName")).Clear(); - not working
  driver.FindElement(By.Id("tagName")).SendKeys(tagName); - not working
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there some way I can access this element on IE?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  J.</p>