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Reputation: 71

Selenium - isElementPresent returns true but unable to click the element

I have a scenario to click on 'X' icon from an overlay. When I check for the element using selenium.isElementPresent("//img[@src='close.jpg']"); it is returning true. But when I perform selenium.click("//img[contains(@src,'close.jpg')]"); action it throws an exception "Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with".

Tried with all types of xpath but couldn't resolve the problem.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4302

Answers (1)

eugene.polschikov
eugene.polschikov

Reputation: 7339

first of all try using couple of methods:

public boolean isElementPresent(By selector)
   {
       return driver.findElements(selector).size()>0;
   }

    public boolean isElementVisible(By selector){
        return driver.findElement(selector).isDisplayed();
    }

then if your page not compeltely rendered try using some wait mechanisms:

Thread.sleep(1000);


driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2,TimeUnit.SECONDS);

and fluentWait mechanism: .

  public WebElement fluentWait(final By locator){
            Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<WebDriver>(driver)
                    .withTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
                    .pollingEvery(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
            .ignoring(org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException.class);
            WebElement foo = wait.until(
                    new Function<WebDriver, WebElement>() {
                        public WebElement apply(WebDriver driver) {
                            return driver.findElement(locator);
                        }
                    }
            );
            return  foo;              }     ;
    fluentWait(By.xpath(..blablabla...)).click();

you can also make jsCode injection: 1) if jQuery is supported

String cssSelector="blablabla";
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        stringBuilder.append("var x = $(\'"+cssSelector+"\');");
        stringBuilder.append("x.click();");
        js.executeScript(stringBuilder.toString());

2) locating needed element through DOM model: e.g.

String js="document.getElementsByTagName('div')[34].click();"
jsCodeExecution(js);
public void jsCodeExecution(String jsCode){
        JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        stringBuilder.append(jsCode);
        js.executeScript(stringBuilder.toString());
    }

try also debug step by step to see exactly where the problem is. Hope it helps you.

Moreover, I recommend you to verify your found css selectors and xpath verify in firepath (addon to firebug in firefox): enter image description here

Upvotes: 3

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