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

Explanation of error message:

The error message simply says, that the element you want to click on is present, but it is not visible. It could be covered by something or temporary not visible.

There could be many reasons why the element is not visible in the moment of the test. Please re-analyse your page and find proper solution for your case.

Solution for particular case:

In my case, this error occures, when a tooltip of the screen element i just clicked on, was poping over the element I wanted to click next. Defocus was a solution I needed.

• Quick solution how to defocus would be to click to some other element in another part of the screen which does "nothing" resp. nothing happens after a click action.
• Proper solution would be to call element.blur() on the element poping the tooltip, which would make the tooltip disapear.