If I use developer tools in Chrome, and paste my By.name statement, the page highlights exactly what I'm trying to view.
Here are two java statements sitting right next to each other:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#name='firstName']")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#name='shippingCost']")).click();
I put these two next to each other to rule out that the driver was broken somehow at the point in the code that these come from. The first statement does clear the text box referenced, but the second is returning NoSuchElementError. I have also tried using By.name as mentioned above, I'm just chasing down why the second throws an error every time.
The page I'm working with is an EXTJS single page website, so the control is always there. I want to use the .getText().length() to validate that there is now text in this box.
Any help on why I'm unable to click, or even just reference this control, on a page where I'm able to use my xpath or name selectors to see the control on the page.
---Edit to add these pics of the code relevent to the above xpaths
Sorry, this is another place that doesnt work, [name='shippingTypeGroundDate']
This is the shippingcost location
And this is the working firstName location
Check whether if there is any duplicate elements in the chosen selector. According to your description name field is working as expected and you are facing issues with the shipping cost field. it is possible that there are duplicate elements in inactive status on the same page with the chosen selector.
you can get number of elements present using below java code :
List<WebElement> listOfElements =driver.findElements(By.xpath("//input[#name='shippingCost']"));
System.out.println("Number of elements:" +listOfElements.size());
if above solutions not working, try with javascriptexecutor , it will perform these actions even if this element is underneath another element.
Add explicit wait for the input textbox to be loaded. Then try to click the textbox with Javascript executor. Sometimes webdriver click may not work.
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#name='shippingCost']"));
try {
if (element.isEnabled() && element.isDisplayed()) {
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);
} else {
System.out.println("Unable to click on element");
}
} catch (StaleElementReferenceException e) {
System.out.println("Element is not attached to the page document "+ e.getStackTrace());
} catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
System.out.println("Element was not found in DOM "+ e.getStackTrace());
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Unable to click on element "+ e.getStackTrace());
}
Hi I am trying to access the DIV element using watir but I am unable to do that,I have tried in different ways but couldn't access it,may be I think it need to be access through some parent element can anyone help me out?
My system Configurations
IE-8
Windows 7
I tried with the below command
#ie.div(:text,'COMPOSE').click
the command gets execute with no errors but no action is performed on the UI
The best solution appears to be switching to Watir-Webdriver. With Watir-Webdriver, #ie.div(:text,'COMPOSE').click will work as expected.
Assuming that is not an option, there are a couple of reasons why that same command does not work with Watir(-Classic) v1.6.7:
The first problem is that #ie.div(:text,'COMPOSE').click will find the first div that contains this text. This would be one of the ancestors of the div you want. As a result, Watir will send the click event against the wrong element.
The second problem is that the div is not responding to the onclick event fired by Watir. I am not sure why this problem exists.
To solve the first problem, you will need to be more specific when locating the div. In this case, the "role" attribute can be used since none of the ancestor elements have this attribute. Watir-Classic does not support using the role attribute as a locator. As a result, you will need to create a custom locator using an element collection and the find method:
#ie.divs.find{ |div| div.attribute_value('role') == 'button' && div.text == 'COMPOSE' }
To solve the second problem, it turns out that double clicking does work. While newer versions of Watir-Classic have a double_click method implemented, it does not exist in 1.6.7. You can replicate the method by calling the fire_event method:
.fire_event('ondblclick')
Putting it all together, the following will click the compose button:
#ie.divs.find{ |div| div.attribute_value('role') == 'button' && div.text == 'COMPOSE' }.fire_event('ondblclick')
There may be more than one element on the page with the text 'COMPOSE', some may be hidden. Try:
#ie.divs(:text,'COMPOSE').size
That is divs with an s.
Then you can try something like the following and see if you get a change in the UI:
#ie.divs(:text,'COMPOSE').each { |b| b.fire_event('click') }
I remember that fire_event works better, but would recommend consulting the docs for the difference between .click and fire_event.
I see this only in Chrome.
The full error message reads:
"org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable at point (411, 675). Other element would receive the click: ..."
The element that 'would receive the click' is to the side of the element in question, not on top of it and not overlapping it, not moving around the page.
I have tried adding an offset, but that does not work either. The item is on the displayed window without any need for scrolling.
This is caused by following 3 types:
1.The element is not visible to click.
Use Actions or JavascriptExecutor for making it to click.
By Actions:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By("element_path"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element).click().perform();
By JavascriptExecutor:
JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
jse.executeScript("scroll(250, 0)"); // if the element is on top.
jse.executeScript("scroll(0, 250)"); // if the element is on bottom.
or
JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
jse.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView()", Webelement);
Then click on the element.
2.The page is getting refreshed before it is clicking the element.
For this, make the page to wait for few seconds.
3. The element is clickable but there is a spinner/overlay on top of it
The below code will wait until the overlay disppears
By loadingImage = By.id("loading image ID");
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeOutInSeconds);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(loadingImage));
Then click on the element.
You can also use JavaScript click and scrolling would be not required then.
IJavaScriptExecutor ex = (IJavaScriptExecutor)Driver;
ex.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].click();", elementToClick);
There seems to be a bug in chromedriver for that (the problem is that it's marked as won't fix)
--> GitHub Link
(place a bounty on FreedomSponsors perhaps?)
There's a workaround suggested at comment #27.
Maybe it'll work for you-
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
Wow, a lot of answers here, and many good ones.
I hope I'll add something to this from my experience.
Well guys, in my case there was a cookie overlay hiding the element occasionally.
Scrolling to the element also works; but in my humble opinion (for my case, not a panacea for everyone) the simplest solution is just to go full screen (I was running my scripts on a 3/4 of the screen window)! So here we go:
driver.manage().window().maximize();
Hope that helps!
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);
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.
I was getting this error when running tests headless with xvfb-run. They were working flawlessly locally. Using chrome, versions of webdriver / chromedriver / chrome / java etc all identical.
The ‘won’t fix’ bug in chromedriver - GitHub Link pointed out by Tony Lâmpada suggested this may be related to what is / isn't visible on the screen.
Help message for xvfb-run shows the following:
-s ARGS --server-args=ARGS arguments (other than server number and
"-nolisten tcp") to pass to the Xvfb server
(default: "-screen 0 640x480x8")
Changing the resolution for xvfb made the error go away:
xvfb-run -s "-screen 0 1280x1024x16" ...
ruby/watir-webdriver/chrome
I use the following trick and seems like it works:
#scroll to myelement
#browser.execute_script "window.scrollTo(#{myelement.element.wd.location[0]},#{myelement.element.wd.location[1]})"
# click myelement
myelement.when_present.fire_event("click")
I, too, wrestled with this problem. Code works fine in FF, fails on Chrome. What I was trying to do was to click a tickbox - if it wasn't in view, I'd scroll to view and then click. Even scrolling into view works in Chrome, only the bottom few pixels of the tickbox wasn't visible so webdriver refused to click on it.
My workaround is this:
WebElement element = _sectorPopup.findElement(...);
((Locatable) element).getCoordinates().inViewPort();
try {
element.click();
} catch (Exception e) {
new Actions(getWebDriver()).sendKeys(Keys.PAGE_DOWN).perform();
element.click();
}
Chrome also has issues with sendKeys, using Actions is sometimes necessary. Obviously, you need to know which direction and how much you need to go so your mileage may vary. But I prefer this to the javascript hack, so I'm posting it here in case someone else will find it useful.
First, try to get the latest Chrome driver and check if it solves the issue.
In my case, it didn't fix the issue. But, the following solution worked for me so far. The following is C# code but you can follow same logic in your specific language. What we do here is,
Step 1: Focus on the element using the Selenium Actions object,
Step 2: Then do a click on the element
Step 3: If there's an exception, then we trigger a javascript "Click" event on the element by executing the javascript script through the Selenium browser driver's "ExecuteScript" method.
You can also skip step 1 and 2 and try only step 3 too. Step 3 would work on it's own but I noticed some strange behavior in one scenario in which step 3, even though it successfully clicked the element, caused unexpected behavior in other parts of my code after clicking the element.
try
{
//Setup the driver and navigate to the web page...
var driver = new ChromeDriver("folder path to the Chrome driver");
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("UrlToThePage");
//Find the element...
var element = driver.FindElement(By.Id("elementHtmlId"));
//Step 1
new Actions(driver).MoveToElement(element).Perform();
//Step 2
element.Click();
}
catch (Exception)
{
//Step 3
driver.ExecuteScript("document.getElementById('elementHtmlId').click();");
}
I was getting the same issue while running selenium script in python. Here is what I used to click on the element:
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
ActionChains(driver).click(element).perform()
When using Protractor this helped me:
var elm = element(by.css('.your-css-class'));
browser.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", elm.getWebElement());
elm.click();
I made this method based on a comment from Tony Lâmpada's answer. It works very well.
def scroll_to(element)
page.execute_script("window.scrollTo(#{element.native.location.x}, #{element.native.location.y})")
end
Today I got the same kind of issue. You don't believe me if i say how i solved the issue.
By maximizing the browser size
Yes, it is a pointer issue that means the size of the browser. For that, you just need to maximize the window size manually or through the code.
I was facing a similar problem whre i have to check two check boxes one after the other.But i was getting the same above error.hence i added wait in between my steps for checking the checkboxes....its working fine and great.here are the steps:-
When I visit /administrator/user_profiles
And I press xpath link "//*[#id='1']"
Then I should see "Please wait for a moment..."
When I wait for 5 seconds
And I press xpath link "//*[#id='2']"
Then I should see "Please wait for a moment..."
When I visit /administrator/user_profiles_updates
The reason for this error is that the element that you are trying to click is not in the viewport (region seen by the user) of the browser. So the way to overcome this is by scrolling to the desired element first and then performing the click.
Javascript:
async scrollTo (webElement) {
await this.driver.executeScript('arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true)', webElement)
await this.driver.executeScript('window.scrollBy(0,-150)')
}
Java:
public void scrollTo (WebElement e) {
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
js.executeAsyncScript('arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true)', e)
js.executeAsyncScript('window.scrollBy(0,-150)')
}
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...
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.
This might happen if the element changes position while the driver is attempting to click it (I've seen this with IE too). The driver retains the initial position but by the time it actually gets to clicking on it, that position is no longer pointing to that element. The FireFox driver doesn't have this problem BTW, apparently it "clicks" elements programmatically.
Anyway, this can happen when you use animations or simply change the height of elements dynamically (e.g. $("#foo").height(500)). You need to make sure that you only click elements after their height has "settled". I ended up with code that looks like this (C# bindings):
if (!(driver is FirefoxDriver))
{
new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)).Until(
d => d.FindElement(By.Id(someDynamicDiv)).Size.Height > initialSize);
}
In case of an animation or any other factor you can't easily query for, you can utilize a "generic" method that waits for the element to be stationary:
var prevLocation = new Point(Int32.MinValue, Int32.MinValue);
int stationaryCount = 0;
int desiredStationarySamples = 6; //3 seconds in total since the default interval is 500ms
return new WebDriverWait(driver, timeout).Until(d =>
{
var e = driver.FindElement(By.Id(someId));
if (e.Location == prevLocation)
{
stationaryCount++;
return stationaryCount == desiredStationarySamples;
}
prevLocation = e.Location;
stationaryCount = 0;
return false;
});
I met this because a loading dialog cover on this element. I simplely solve it by add a waiting before working with the this element.
try {
Thread.sleep((int) (3000));
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
//
e.printStackTrace();
}
Hope this help!
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.
I was facing the same problem with clj-webdriver (clojure port of Selenium). I just translated the previous solution to clojure for convenience. You can call this function before doing click or whatever to avoid that problem.
(defn scrollTo
"Scrolls to the position of the given css selector if found"
[q]
(if (exists? q)
(let [ loc (location-once-visible q) jscript (str "window.scrollTo(" (:x loc) "," (:y loc) ")") ]
(execute-script jscript))))
Maybe it's not really clean solution but it works:
try:
el.click()
except WebDriverException as e:
if 'Element is not clickable at point' in e.msg:
self.browser.execute_script(
'$("{sel}").click()'.format(sel=el_selector)
)
else:
raise
I was getting this bug because I tested a hover and then needed to click on the link underneath the tooltip. The solution was to add page.find('.sp-logo').hover before click_link to get the tooltip out of the way.
It's funny, all the time I spent looking at the various responses, no one had tried the obvious, which of course, I hadn't either. If your page has the same id used multiple times, as mine did, ("newButton",) and the one you want is not the first one found, then you will in all likelihood get this error. The easiest thing to do (C#):
var testIt = driver.FindElements(By.Id("newButton"));
Note it's FindElements, not FindElement.
And then test to see how many results came back from the retrieval. If it's the second one, you can then use:
testit[1].Click();
Or get whomever reused ids to fix them.
After testing all mentioned suggestions, nothing worked. I made this code. It works, but is not beautiful
public void click(WebElement element) {
//https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=2766 (fix)
while(true){
try{
element.click();
break;
}catch (Throwable e){
try {
Thread.sleep(200);
} catch (InterruptedException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
public void click(String css) {
//https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=2766 (fix)
while(true){
try{
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(css)).click();
break;
}catch (Throwable e){
try {
Thread.sleep(200);
} catch (InterruptedException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
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
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)
Try to maximize the browser when you are working with resolutions greater than 1024x768.
driver.manage().window().maximize();