Element not clickable using Selenium webdriver with Chrome (same code:works fine using firefox)

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Using selenium-2.44.tar.gz and chrome for automating test cases:Very strange my code works fine using Firefox 33 but fails using Google Chrome:

"WebDriverException: Message: u'unknown error: Element is not clickable at point(57, 161). Other element would receive the click: ...\n (Session info: chrome=42.0.2311.135 )\n (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9.248315,platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86_64)'" self.driver.find_element_by_xpath(".//[@id='searchMessagstoryBtn']").click()

any idea? shouldnt it work better with chrome one wonders since webdriver is Google code nowdays or am I wrong!!!

See this question - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11908249/debugging-element-is-not-clickable-at-point-error — LittlePanda, May 04 '15 at 15:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 29 '15 at 12:30

Unlike firefox, to use chromedriver you have to download chromedriver from http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/ and had to give path in your code.
You can use the below code, to use chrome driver in java or in python
Java:

public void testGoogleSearch() {
  // Optional, if not specified, WebDriver will search your path for chromedriver.
  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/path/to/chromedriver");

  WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
  driver.get("http://www.google.com/xhtml");
  Thread.sleep(5000);  // Let the user actually see something!
  WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
  searchBox.sendKeys("ChromeDriver");
  searchBox.submit();
  Thread.sleep(5000);  // Let the user actually see something!
  driver.quit();
}

Python:

import time
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver')  # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
driver.get('http://www.google.com/xhtml');
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name('q')
search_box.send_keys('ChromeDriver')
search_box.submit()
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
driver.quit()

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 04 '15 at 15:31

It seems to be a bug in ChromeDriver. http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=2766

Try this workaround solution from form #27. I hope it would help you:

I ran into this same issue as well with Chrome...clicking the element works fine in firefox but not in Chrome...the fix is pretty easy though, all you have to do is scroll the element into view before clicking it, and you won't run into this problem in Chrome. Here's the code i use:

IWebElement elementToClick = ;

// Scroll the browser to the element's Y position (driver as IJavaScriptExecutor).ExecuteScript(string.Format("window.scrollTo(0, {0});", elementToClick.Location.Y));

// Click the element elementToClick.Click();

Hope this helps anyone else who runs into this issue

Hi thanks, is there any chance you can give me the code in python and any needed import thanks. — Sharos Mass, May 05 '15 at 12:51

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 13 '17 at 15:46

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@FindBy(xpath = "//[@id='searchMessagstoryBtn']")
private WebElement Search_btn;

public WebElement getSearchBtnClick() {
    return Search_btn;
}

public void Click_Search_Btn() {
    //click the search button
    TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(3);
    getSearchBtnClick().click();
}

edited Jul 13 '17 at 15:46

budi

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answered Jul 13 '17 at 12:40

Mounika Medipelli

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