Selenium -- Click on a blank area of an element

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<td width="14%" height="90" valign="top" id="cell_saturday1" name="06/02/2018" onclick="onClick(this);">
<table width="100%" height="30" id="table_saturday1"></table>
</td>

Is there any way I can click anywhere on td in above code not containing table with the id table_saturday1?

yes td is clickable. But I want to avoid clicking on the table which is in td — fzn, Jun 14 '18 at 07:32

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '18 at 07:40

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You can use this Xpath to click on td which is clickable :

//td[@id='cell_saturday1' and @name='06/02/2018' and contains(@onclick,'onClick(this);')]

answered Jun 14 '18 at 07:40

cruisepandey

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This should work , try to use explicit wait if it throws any exception related to excepted conditions. – cruisepandey Jun 14 '18 at 07:44

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 14 '18 at 08:19

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You can try with javascript executor as given below.

JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
jse.executeScript("document.getElementById('cell_saturday1').click();");

or

WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.id("cell_saturday1"));
jse.executeScript("arguments[0].click();",ele);

or Using action class

Actions builder = new Actions(driver);   
builder.moveToElement(ele, 0, 0).click().build().perform();

answered Jun 14 '18 at 08:19

Murthi

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I had a similar issue where the FirefoxDriver (Chrome and IE were fine) was not appearing to click on the cell. Using the Actions approach and specifying an X offset of 5 fixed the issue. I guess it was clicking on the border or off to the side of the cell for some reason. `Actions builder = new Actions(driver); builder.moveToElement(ele, 0, 5).click().build().perform();` – Andrew Brown Feb 27 '19 at 22:00

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 14 '18 at 13:09

To click anywhere within the <td> except the childnode <table> with id as table_saturday1 you can use the following Locator Strategy Locator Strategy :

cssSelector:

"td#cell_saturday1:not(#table_saturday1)"

xpath:

"//td[@id='cell_saturday1' and not(@id='table_saturday1')]"

Selenium -- Click on a blank area of an element

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