Check that the element is clickable or not in Selenium WebDriver

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I have automated web applications that are very heavy on Ajax. 

Like a modal dialog is displayed with the text "Saving..." when it is saving the settings, while the rest of the page greys out

My test scripts are trying to click the next link in the test before the message disappears. It almost always works when driving Firefox, but when driving Chrome the following error is displayed:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable at point (99.5, 118.5). Other element would receive the click: <div class="dijitDialogUnderlay _underlay" dojoattachpoint="node" id="lfn10Dijit_freedom_widget_common_environment_Dialog_8_underlay" style="width: 1034px; height: 1025px; "></div> (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

Is there a way to detect if the element is clickable or not? 

Jun 12, 2018 in Selenium by Sahiti
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Use Selenium Waits:

    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(yourWebDriver, 5);
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//xpath_to_element")));

Webdriver will wait for 5 seconds for the element to be able to be clicked.

Hope this helps!

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answered Jun 12, 2018 by Meci Matt
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Hi ,

you want to know only is that element is clickable r not .so

u have to check element properties like IsVisable , IsEnabled etc.

For further understanding, you can refer to the Selenium Course.

answered Aug 31, 2020 by Sri
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