Selenium Webdriver: Click on radio button not working

Question

I have a code which clicks on a radio button, at first I was using Chrome. Using the code below:

driver.findElement(By.id("radioButton1"))).click();

I got the error:

"org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable at point (411, 675). Other element would receive the click: ..."

Doing research, I changed the code to:

actions.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.id("radioButton1"))).click().perform();

Now, I am trying to use Internet Explorer driver. But it does not perform the click.

I tried the following:

driver.findElement(By.id("radioButton1")).sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);

actions.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.id("radioButton1"))).click().perform();

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click()", driver.findElement(By.id("radioButton1")));

But none works. The first one just focuses on the button, so I added another sendKeys, but it doesn't work. The 2nd and 3rd, nothing happens.

Edit:

Adding HTML snippet.

<input name="btn1" class="w-rdo-native" id="radioButton1" type="radio" value="value1" bh="RDOINP" isrefresh="false">
<label class="w-rdo w-rdo-dsize" bh="RDO"></label>

And when I click on the radio button, the label gets an additional property upon click.

<label class="w-rdo w-rdo-dsize" bh="RDO" AWMouseDown="true"></label>

Additional edit:

The set of buttons look like this:

and as stated before, one button + label block has the following HTML structure:

<tr>
   <td>
      <div class="w-rdo-container">
          <input name="radioButtons" class="w-rdo-native" id="button1" type="radio" value="button1" bh="RDOINP" isrefresh="false">
          <label class="w-rdo w-rdo-dsize" bh="RDO">
          </label>
      </div>
  </td>
  <td class="sectionHead">Option 2
  </td>
</tr>

Upon clicking a button, the corresponding label gets an additional attribute:

<label class="w-rdo w-rdo-dsize" bh="RDO" AWMouseDown="true"></label>

It seems AWMouseDown seems to be the trigger to 'officially' click the button.

Edit :

Full HTML snippet of table. (Please note that this table has been cleansed so apologies for some mistake if I committed one.)

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="a-cptp-tbl">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <div class="w-rdo-container">
                    <input checked class="w-rdo-native" id="btn1" name="radioBtn" type="radio" value="btn1"><label class="w-rdo w-rdo-dsize"></label>
                </div>
            </td>
            <td class="sectionHead">Option 1</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <div class="w-rdo-container">
                    <input class="w-rdo-native" id="btn2" name="radioBtn" type="radio" value="btn2"><label class="w-rdo w-rdo-dsize"></label>
                </div>
            </td>
            <td class="sectionHead">Option 2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <div class="w-rdo-container">
                    <input class="w-rdo-native" id="btn3" name="radioBtn" type="radio" value="btn3"><label class="w-rdo w-rdo-dsize"></label>
                </div>
            </td>
            <td class="sectionHead">Option 3</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <div class="w-rdo-container">
                    <input class="w-rdo-native" id="btn4" name="radioBtn" type="radio" value="btn4"><label class="w-rdo w-rdo-dsize"></label>
                </div>
            </td>
            <td class="sectionHead">Option 4</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <div class="w-rdo-container">
                    <input class="w-rdo-native" id="btn5" name="radioBtn" type="radio" value="btn5"><label class="w-rdo w-rdo-dsize"></label>
                </div>
            </td>
            <td class="sectionHead">Option 5</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <div class="w-rdo-container">
                    <input class="w-rdo-native" id="btn6" name="radioBtn" type="radio" value="btn6"><label class="w-rdo w-rdo-dsize"></label>
                </div>
            </td>
            <td class="sectionHead">Option 6</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

Answer 1

Just add Thread.sleep(5000); above your script for radio button. For example like this

     Thread.sleep(5000);
     driver.findElement(By.id("uniform-id_gender2")).click();

It works for me. :)

Answer 2

Try using JavaScript like below:

WebElement radioBtn1 = driver.findElement(By.id("radioButton1"));
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].checked = true;", radioBtn1);

If you are using QMetry Automation Framework, you should create custom radio button component like where you can override click method with such custom implementation.

Answer 3

Write a method that will accept the position of the radio button and click on the button by using cssSelector as follows:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("table.a-cptp-tbl > tbody > tr:nth-child(" + checkBoxPosition + ") > td > div > input")).click();

Full method:

public void selectOption(int positionOfCheckBox){
        By locator = By.cssSelector("table.a-cptp-tbl > tbody > tr:nth-child(" + positionOfCheckBox + ") > td > div > input");
        //wait for your element to be visible
        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
        wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(locator));
        //click element after it is visible/clickable
        driver.findElement(locator).click();
    }

Answer 4

Use ExplicitWait to wait for element until clickable and then have to click on that element

     WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("radioButton1"));
     WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 120);
     wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(element));

     element.click();

EDITED

If it is causing problem in IE browser. The cause is preventing to find element in IE browser is ActiveX Controls

So just you need to follow these steps -

1. Go to Internet options > Advanced > security and do check below mentioned checks -

2. after check > apply and then don't forgot to restart your PC

Now simply run your script and try to click on that element using id

driver.findElement(By.id("button1")).click(); 

Hope this will work. Let us know if still face the same issue.

Answer 5

Try following for clicking on Option 2 radio button:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//td[normalize-space(text())='Option 2']/preceding::input[1]")).click();

Answer 6

It seems that the radio button is combination of the <input> and <label> tags, i.e. the <div> with class="w-rdo-container" or its <td> parent. I think so because the rapper <td> and the <td> where the label Option 2 is are siblings.

class="w-rdo-container" doesn't seem to be unique, so you can use xpath to go up the html tree from id="button1"

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[input[@id='button1']]")).click(); // to click the div
// or
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//td[div[input[@id='button1']]]")).click(); // to click the td

Answer 7

Not sure what is causing the problem.It works for me thought:

 public static IWebDriver driver;
    [Test]
    public void TestMethod1()
    {
        driver = new PhantomJSDriver();
        driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("file:///C:/Users/utripra/Desktop/test.html");
        driver.FindElement(By.Id("radioButton1")).Click();

Answer 8

Can you try identifying the radio buttons using a list and then clicking on an element in the list using its index with get()?

List<WebElement> radioGrp = driver.findElements(By.name("xxxxxxxx"));
radioGrp.get(0).click();