How can I click at the coordinates without identifying an element

Question

In a part of the Selenium test for a login function, I would like to click a button by identifying its coordinates and make Selenium to click at those specified coordinates. Can this be done without actually identifying the element itself (via id, XPath, etc)?

I also know that there are many more efficient ways to run a click command, but I'm looking for the one which is specifically used for this approach for better user experience.

Answer 1

Of course, there is a way to do this. You can use the ActionChains API and you can move the mouse over an element, adjust by some offset, and then click at that location. Here's how you do it using WebDriver in Python:

element = find_element_by_selector(selector)
ed = ActionChains(browser)
ed.move_to_element(element).move_by_offset(x_off, y_off).click().perform()

Everybody might just quickly try to dismiss this question but, there are a number of ways to click at a specific location, rather than on any element. This technique would also be valuable for imagemaps as well.

Hope you find this useful. :)