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Mitch
Mitch

Reputation: 389

Selenium chrome driver click() method not always clicking on elements

I am writing integration tests in c# and when I use the click() method on certain elements inside a dialog box nothing happens and I get no errors. It will click some of the elements inside the dialog but not others. I thought if it wasn't selecting them properly then it would throw and exception but it runs smooth and says test passed even though it never actually clicked the button. The dialog box is an iframe.

I thought maybe it was trying to click a button that wasn't display yet or enabled so I added this before the click() call:

 _driver.SwitchTo().Frame(_frameElement);
     _wait.Until(d =>
    {
      var shippingInfoButton = d.FindElement(By.CssSelector("input[title ='Info']"));
      return shippingInfoButton.Displayed && shippingInfoButton.Enabled;
    });
       var infoButton = _driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("input[title ='Info']"));
        ScrollToElement(infoButton);
        infoButton.Click();

again this runs with no thrown exceptions so I'm assuming it has found the element and it is both displayed and enabled.

Let me know if you need any more info. Thanks

Upvotes: 5

Views: 8259

Answers (3)

mimusheli
mimusheli

Reputation: 13

I have some tests that works in Firefox all the times, and in Chrome it drove me mad, because sometimes it passed successfully, and sometimes the ".click" didn't work and it would fail the test.

Took a long time to notice it, but the reason was: I used to sometimes minimize the browser to 80% to be able to see the browser along side my IDE. it appears that the ".click" doesn't work when I did it.

At least for me this was the issue

Upvotes: 0

cheesesharp
cheesesharp

Reputation: 543

I ran into a similar problem. If it's the same problem there's a fault in the ChromeDriver it can't click certain elements because of surrounding divs etc. Bit lame really.

A simple fix is to send the Enter key e.g. element.SendKeys(Keys.Enter). Seems to work across all browsers.

Upvotes: 4

Mitch
Mitch

Reputation: 389

I can't explain why the selenium driver .click() method won't fire on some elements in the page but not others, but I did find a solution.

Using IJavaScriptExecutor you can click the element using javascript instead and in my case it worked.

Here is the code to run the IJavaScriptExecutor and below is my whole method. 

    //IJavaScriptExecutor
    IJavaScriptExecutor js = _driver as IJavaScriptExecutor;

         js.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].click();", infoButton);

    //my whole method for clicking the button and returning the page object
    public ShippingMethodDetailsPageObject SelectShippingMethodInfo()
    {
        _driver.SwitchTo().Frame(_frameElement);
        _wait.Until(d =>
        {
         var shippingInfoButton = d.FindElement(By.CssSelector("input[title='Info']"));
            return shippingInfoButton.Displayed && shippingInfoButton.Enabled;
        });

         var infoButton = _driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("input[title ='Info']"));
         IJavaScriptExecutor js = _driver as IJavaScriptExecutor;

         js.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].click();", infoButton);
        _driver.SwitchTo().DefaultContent();

        return new ShippingMethodDetailsPageObject(_driver, false);
    }

Upvotes: 8

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