only headless mode - element is not clickable at point, Other element would receive the click

Question

I tried to click on a dropdown box by Chrome Selenium python. Chrome 110 python version 3

This box can be found OK, but when click() was performed, The error ElementClickIntercepted occured. ...Element MyElement is not clickable at point (x, y)... Other element would receive the click... The abnormal that when i tried to click that box on UI mode(No --headless option), it's OK, no error occurs. This error occurs only with --headless mode. It seems other element covered on my element. i cannot have solution for this

Someone please help me.

I tried serveral solution that i found in here such as

Wait object
Action Chains
Scroll to object
Maximum windows size But all of them are not working.

Please provide enough code so others can better understand or reproduce the problem. — Community, Feb 28 '23 at 16:17
none of those solve the problem of another element blocking the one you're trying to click — pguardiario, Mar 01 '23 at 00:51
Sorry i wrtting in a security project, i cannot public it out — martin, Mar 01 '23 at 06:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '23 at 14:34

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Try using JavaScript to perform click() (assuming you haven't tried it already)

element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "enter the XPath expression here/or any locator")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", element)

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/75555555/7598774

answered Feb 28 '23 at 14:34

Shawn

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Thank you for your help. The error not show out on cmd screen but, the dropdown box still cannot click on. After performing your code, dropdown not opened. Could you help me more – martin Mar 01 '23 at 06:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 06 '23 at 02:31

Anyway, after trying many click methods. I found one method to select a directly value option in the dropdown menu. Here is code:

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

import time
 
# using chrome driver

driver=webdriver.Chrome()
 
# web page url

driver.get("https://fs2.formsite.com/meherpavan/form2/index.html?1537702596407")
 
# find id of option

x = driver.find_element_by_id('RESULT_RadioButton-9')

drop=Select(x)
 
# select by visible text

drop.select_by_visible_text("Afternoon")

time.sleep(4)
driver.close()

only headless mode - element is not clickable at point, Other element would receive the click

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