How to click on the anchor element when the spinner obscures it using Selenium and Python?

Question

I am new to selenium and i have been trying for some time to click on an anchor element. I have tried css-selector,lint_text,xpath,absolute xpath but i am still unable to click on it and instead i am getting this error message:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: Driver Schedule

Does anyone know how to get around this ?

Update: I am getting this error now:

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: Element <a href="#/schedule/weekly-view"> is not clickable at point (326,333) because another element <div class="app-spinner-layer active"> obscures it

Check if your element is inside any . in that case you need to switch to that frame then your driver object will be able to click that element. — NitishKshirsagar, Jan 09 '20 at 06:43
Actually it's an admin panel, the code contains password, which i can't share, i can share the rest of the code. — Mohammad Taha, Jan 09 '20 at 06:44

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-09T08:59:50.297

To click() on the element with text as Driver Schedule as it is an <a> node you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using LINK_TEXT:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.invisibility_of_element((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.app-spinner-layer.active")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Driver Schedule"))).click()

Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.invisibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='app-spinner-layer active']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Driver Schedule"))).click()

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.invisibility_of_element((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.app-spinner-layer.active")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "li.pll a[href$='weekly-view']"))).click()

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.invisibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='app-spinner-layer active']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(@href,'weekly-view') and contains(., 'Driver Schedule')]"))).click()

Note : You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

I am getting this error now: selenium.common.exceptions.ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: Element is not clickable at point (326,333) because another element
obscures it — Mohammad Taha, Jan 09 '20 at 08:54
@MohammadTaha Checkout the updated answer and let me know the status. — undetected Selenium, Jan 09 '20 at 09:00

How to click on the anchor element when the spinner obscures it using Selenium and Python?

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