CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonselenium
Saurabh Shrivastava
Saurabh Shrivastava

Reputation: 1484

"Element is not clickable" error in selenium python

I have been using the same scripts for over a year, but since yesterday i am getting this error when click on links having images. I am getting the element by xpath and then clicking it.

test_101_HomePage_links (__main__.SprintTests) ... ERROR

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ERROR: test_101_HomePage_links (__main__.SprintTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Zaakpay\website\sanity results\debug\tests.py", line 17, in test_101_HomePage_links
    a.click()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 73, in click
    self._execute(Command.CLICK_ELEMENT)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py", line 456, in _execute
    return self._parent.execute(command, params)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 236, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 194, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
WebDriverException: Message: Element is not clickable at point (281.25, 61). Other element would receive the click: <span></span>


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Ran 1 test in 23.062s

FAILED (errors=1)

Other info: using windows, using python, using firefox, same script was working fine till yesterday

My code:

import unittest
from selenium import webdriver
import datetime
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile
import time

class SprintTests(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
        self.driver.implicitly_wait(30)
        self.driver.maximize_window()
        self.driver.get("https://www.zaakpay.com")

    def test_101_HomePage_links(self):
        a= self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[3]/ul/li[1]/a/i")
        a.click()
        time.sleep(5)
        a = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="view1"]/p')
        b=a.text
        self.assertEqual('-Payment Gateway Services.\n-More than you want payment options with.\n-major credit cards, debit cards and 52 netbanking banks.\n-Fastest Merchant Approval.\n-Smooth integration across 22 platforms.\n-Start in minutes.\n-Multi-Currency Processing Service with 13 currencies.\n\nSIGN UP',b )


    def tearDown(self):
        self.driver.quit()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main(verbosity=2)

link i am trying to click is circular image above text- WEBSITE PAYMENT GATEWAY

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1506

Answers (1)

Levi Noecker
Levi Noecker

Reputation: 3300

Using XPATHs like this /html/body/div[5]/div[1]/div[3]/ul/li[1]/a/i are problematic for a number of reasons.

First and foremost, they are extremely brittle. All it takes is a minor update to the site, one that might night even be visually perceptible, and the hard coded div indexes break. The site devs might have added a div to slightly alter a font style and then your XPATH is completely broken.

Second, it makes it next to impossible to debug once it does break. I have absolutely no idea what you were intending to click on, and if this were production code that someone else was attempting to fix, they would also have no idea what you were intending to click on.

My best guess is that zaakpay made some small, imperceptible change that slightly changed the location of your target element in the DOM. If you update the XPATH to something like //div[@class=\"prdtBlck\"]/ul/li/a, as I've done below, your script works:

import unittest
from selenium import webdriver
import datetime
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile
import time

class SprintTests(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
        self.driver.implicitly_wait(30)
        self.driver.maximize_window()
        self.driver.get("https://www.zaakpay.com")

    def test_101_HomePage_links(self):
        a=self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class=\"prdtBlck\"]/ul/li/a")
        a.click()
        time.sleep(5)
        a = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="view1"]/p')
        b=a.text
        self.assertEqual('-Payment Gateway Services.\n-More than you want payment options with.\n-major credit cards, debit cards and 52 netbanking banks.\n-Fastest Merchant Approval.\n-Smooth integration across 22 platforms.\n-Start in minutes.\n-Multi-Currency Processing Service with 13 currencies.\n\nSIGN UP',b )


    def tearDown(self):
        self.driver.quit()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main(verbosity=2)

Upvotes: 1

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