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jacobcan118
jacobcan118

Reputation: 9099

Fix error "Element is not clickable" in Selenium webdriver

I need to click on elements that are in the DOM, but they don't show on browser page unless I scroll down to the bottom of the page to see it.

Is there a better way for me to do it?

The program will fail with "Message: unknown error: Element is not clickable at point" without line scroll_browser(driver) and it is fine once we scroll down before clicking.

import time
from selenium import webdriver

def scroll_browser(driver, destination_height=None):
    # Get scroll height
    if not destination_height:
        destination_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")

    while True:
        driver.execute_script("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);")

        new_height = driver.execute_script("return document.body.scrollHeight")
        if new_height == destination_height:
            break
        destination_height = new_height

if __name__ == '__main__':
    driver = webdriver.Chrome()
    driver.get('https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home')
    time.sleep(2)
    link = '//a[text()="Terms of Use"]'
    time.sleep(2)
    #scroll_browser(driver)
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(link).click()
    time.sleep(2)
    driver.close()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 971

Answers (1)

Andersson
Andersson

Reputation: 52685

Try to scroll to required element with below code:

if __name__ == '__main__':
    driver = webdriver.Chrome()
    driver.get('https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home')
    link = driver.find_element_by_link_text('Terms of Use')
    driver.execute_script('arguments[0].scrollIntoView();', link)
    link.click()
    driver.close()

Upvotes: 1

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