Getting this error Element is not clickable at point

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This error is only with Chrome and nothing else. Error is:

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

The element I want to click is, actually beside the element that is going to recieve the click. Neither is this element on top of it nor overlapping it. Any work around for this?

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Apr 21, 2018 in Selenium by kappa3010
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5 answers to this question.

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There are 3 possible solutions for this:
1. Use Actions() method

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By("element_path"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element).click().perform();

2. Use Waits to let the page load completely before the click is performed

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlywait(15 TimeUnit.seconds)

3. The element is not clickable because of a Spinner/Overlay on top of it:

By loadingImage = By.id("loading image ID");
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeOutInSeconds);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(loadingImage));

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answered Apr 21, 2018 by king_kenny
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In Data driven framework while selecting data picker above info helped me a lot.

Thank you
Thanks got some useful information, which indeed helped me to run my script
Thanks a lot. Saved a lot of my time.
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WebElement element=driver.findelement(By.Xpath("your xpath"));

Point p= element.getLocation();

Actions actions = new Actions(driver);

actions.moveToElement(element).movebyoffset(p.x,p.y).click().perform();
answered Feb 22, 2019 by Shalini Karre
Thanks !!! worked..
using python:
element = self.get_element_by_classname(<element's class name>)
actions = ActionChains(self.driver)
actions.move_to_element(element).perform()
actions.click().perform()
Worked! Thank you!
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WebElement element = driver.findElement(By("element_path"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element).click().perform();
answered Sep 3, 2020 by Sri
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Other element would receive the click'. This happens when the element is loaded into the DOM, but the position is not fixed on the UI. There can be some other divs or images or ads that are not loaded completely. And ChromeDriver always tries to click the middle of the element.

answered Dec 15, 2020 by Gitika
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The reason for the element is not clickable at point(x,y) exception. It mostly happens in Chrome so if you are mostly working with Firefox or IE then you will not be getting this exception. Chrome always click in the middle of Element. Sometimes you will get this exception due to Sync issue also.

Another cloud be:

This is caused by following 3 types:

1.The element is not visible to click.

Use Actions or JavascriptExecutor for making it to click.

By Actions:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By("element_path"));

Actions actions = new Actions(driver);

actions.moveToElement(element).click().perform();

By JavascriptExecutor:

JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;

jse.executeScript("scroll(250, 0)"); // if the element is on top.

jse.executeScript("scroll(0, 250)"); // if the element is on bottom.

or

JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;

jse.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView()", Webelement); 

Then click on the element.

2.The page is getting refreshed before it is clicking the element.

For this, make the page to wait for few seconds.

3. The element is clickable but there is a spinner/overlay on top of it

The below code will wait until the overlay disppears

By loadingImage = By.id("loading image ID");

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeOutInSeconds);

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(loadingImage));

Then click on the element.

answered Dec 15, 2020 by Roshni
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