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Pelo
Pelo

Reputation: 31

Why does trying to click with selenium brings up "ElementNotInteractableException"?

I'm trying to click on the webpage "https://2018.navalny.com/hq/arkhangelsk/" from the website's main page. However, I get this error

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message:

There's nothing after "Message:"

My code

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('https://2018.navalny.com/')
time.sleep(5)
linkElem = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(@href,'arkhangelsk')]")
type(linkElem)
linkElem.click()

I think xpath is necessary for me because, ultimately, my goal is to click not on a single link but on 80 links on this webpage. I've already managed to print all the relevant links using this :

driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//a[contains(@href,'hq')]")

However, for starters, I'm trying to make it click at least a single link.

Thanks for your help,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5050

Answers (1)

timbre timbre
timbre timbre

Reputation: 13970

The best way to figure out issues like this, is to look at the page source using developer tools of your preferred browser. For instance, when I go to this page and look at HTML tab of the Firebug, and look for //a[contains(@href,'arkhangelsk')] I see this:

enter image description here

So the link is located within div, which is currently not visible (in fact entire sub-section starting from div with id="hqList" is hidden). Selenium will not allow you to click on invisible elements, although it will allow you to inspect them. Hence getting element works, clicking on it - does not.

What you do with it depends on what your expectations are. In this particular case it looks like you need to click on <label class="branches-map__toggle-label" for="branchesToggle">Список</label> to get that link visible. So add this:

browser.find_element_by_link_text("Список").click();

after that you can click on any links in the list.

Upvotes: 1

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