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

Apparently this is the result of a "Won't Fix" bug in the Chrome driver binary.

One solution that worked for me (Our Mileage May Vary) can be found in this Google Group discussion, Comment #3:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/selenium-developer-activity/DsZ5wFN52tc

The relevant portion is right here:

I've since worked around the issue by navigating directly to the href of the parent anchor of the span.

driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(driver.FindElement(By.Id(embeddedSpanIdToClick)).FindElement(By.XPath("..")).GetAttribute("href"));

In my case, I'm using Python, so once I got the desired element, I simply used

driver.get(ViewElm.get_attribute('href'))

I would expect this to only work, however, if the element you are trying to click on is a link...