Selenium and Python. Element not clickable at point (x,y) because another element obscures it

Question

I am attempting to select a checkbox on a webpage using Selenium and Python using this line of code

self.driver.find_element_by_id('lg_1166').click()

but am getting this error message

Message: Element <input id="lg_1699" name="lg_1699" type="checkbox"> is not clickable at point (284,888) because another element <div class="col-12 text-center"> obscures it

Then, when I inspect that same webpage looking for <div class="col-12 text-center">, there is no matching HTML.

Here's the HTML of the page

I am unfamiliar with waits in Selenium and was wondering if anyone could help me resolve this issue.

Thanks!

Please don't use images for code and provide relevant code blocks to show us what you have attempted to do. — Minal Chauhan, May 05 '21 at 05:38
Does this answer your question? [Selenium Web Driver & Java. Element is not clickable at point (x, y). Other element would receive the click](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44912203/selenium-web-driver-java-element-is-not-clickable-at-point-x-y-other-elem) — Prophet, May 05 '21 at 05:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 05 '21 at 05:57

It is quite common in HTML for some elements to be visually placed over others in the UI rendering. When Selenium WebElement.click() is used, the visual dimension of the element on which click has to be performed is obtained and click is performed. If there is an element occupying the same visual space, error is thrown.

There are 2 possible solutions.

You can wait until the element is clickable using the below explicit wait

element = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'lg_1166')))
element.click();

Use javascript executor to click on the element. This would trigger a javascript click on the element by-passing the visual click.
```
element = driver.find_element_by_id('lg_1166')
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", element)
```

This worked perfectly! Thank you so so much! – booshwayne May 05 '21 at 21:38 — booshwayne, May 05 '21 at 21:38

Selenium and Python. Element not clickable at point (x,y) because another element obscures it

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