Debugging “Element is not clickable at point” error

Question

I see this only in Chrome.

The full error message reads:

\"org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable at point (411, 675

Answer 1

I have seen this in the situation when the selenium driven Chrome window was opened too small. The element to be clicked on was out of the viewport and therefore it was failing.

That sounds logical... real user would have to either resize the window or scroll so that it is possible to see the element and in fact click on it.

After instructing the selenium driver to set the window size appropriately this issues went away for me. The webdriver API is decribed here.