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 had the same issue, tried all offered solutions but they did not work for me. eventually I used this:

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
js.executeScript("var evt = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');" + "evt.initMouseEvent('click',true, true, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0,null);" + "arguments[0].dispatchEvent(evt);", findElement(element));

Hope this helps

Answer 2

Re Tony Lâmpada's answer, comment #27 did indeed solve the problem for me, except that it provided Java code and I needed Python. Here's a Python function that scrolls to the element's position and then clicks it.

def scroll_to_and_click(xpath):
    element = TestUtil.driver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath)
    TestUtil.driver.execute_script('window.scrollTo(0, ' + str(element.location['y']) + ');')
    element.click()

This solved the problem for me in Chrome 34.0. It caused no harm in Firefox 28.0 and IE 11; those browsers aren't subject to the problem, but scrolling to the element's position before clicking it still isn't a bad thing.

Answer 3

I do a kind of brute force of clicks and it works for me.

try:
    elem.click()
except:
    print "failed to click"
    size = elem.size
    mid_of_y = int(size["height"])/2
    stepts_to_do_to_left = int(size["width"])
    while stepts_to_do_to_left > 0:
        try:
            print stepts_to_do_to_left, mid_of_y
            action = webdriver.common.action_chains.ActionChains(driver)
            action.move_to_element_with_offset(elem, mid_of_y, stepts_to_do_to_left)
            action.click()
            action.perform()
            print "DONE CLICK"
            break
        except:
            pass

Answer 4

You can also use JavaScript click and scrolling would be not required then.

IJavaScriptExecutor ex = (IJavaScriptExecutor)Driver;
ex.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].click();", elementToClick);

Answer 5

You need to use focus or scroll on that element. You also might have to use explict wait.

WebElement firstbutton= driver.findElement(By.xpath("Your Element"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element);
actions.perform();

OR

The element is not clickable because of a Spinner/Overlay on top of it:

By loadingImage = By.id("loading image ID");
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeOutInSeconds);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(loadingImage));

OR

Point p= element.getLocation();
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element).movebyoffset(p.x,p.y).click().perform();

OR

If still not work use JavascriptExecutor

JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", firstbutton);

Answer 6

If you have jQuery loaded on the page, you can execute the following javascript command:

"$('#" + element_id + "').click()"

Example using python executor:

driver.execute_script("$('#%s').click()" % element_id)