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user964503
user964503

Reputation: 131

Explicit wait not working for a checkbox selenium

I'm trying to implement an explicit wait before giving a click on a checkbox:

WebDriverWait(self.driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "pay_type_list_item_id_salary"]")))

self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[@id="pay_type_list_item_id_salary"]').click()

My problem is that my explicit wait keeps sending the error:

not clickable at point (663, 478). Other element would receive the click.

I'm trying to use different kind of explicit waits like visibility_of_element_located or invisibility_of_element_located (using an element from the previous step on my script), but no luck with those options.

If I add a time.sleep(1) between the 2 lines my scripts works but I know it's not the most efficient thing to use time.sleep.

The previous step before this one opens a calendar and I'm not sure if it tries to give the click when the calendar is closing and that's the reason to receive this error.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 660

Answers (1)

JeffC
JeffC

Reputation: 25610

The error you are getting is indicating that another element is covering the element you are trying to click. If you look at the error message (you really should post the full error message in your question), it will tell you the HTML of the element that is in the way. That will give you a good idea of what element is blocking the click so you can find it and figure out what part of the page it is. Then you can wait for it to get out of the way. From your description, it sounds like you need to add a wait for the calendar to close.

Upvotes: 1

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