Selenium element is not clickable at point issue- Python

Question

I'm writing a basic automated test in python using selenium. I can navigate through several pages but when i get to this one particular page i'm unable to click on the button.

Code where my test is failing

driver.find_element_by_id('//*[@id="save"]').click()

Element when i inspect over the button i'm trying to click

<input type="submit" value="View Report" id="save" name="save" data-reportid="108">

Error message below

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: element click intercepted: Element is not clickable at point (1750, 770). Other element would receive the click:

... (Session info: chrome=83.0.4103.116)

Answer 1

You need to consider a couple of things here. As per the HTML of the element:

<input type="submit" value="View Report" id="save" name="save" data-reportid="108">

The WebElement is a React element. So click on the element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input#save[name='save'][value='View Report']"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@id='save' and @name='save'][@value='View Report']"))).click()
  

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  

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References

You can find a couple of relevant discussion in:

• Selenium Web Driver & Java. Element is not clickable at point (x, y). Other element would receive the click
• Element MyElement is not clickable at point (x, y)… Other element would receive the click

Answer 2

Element probably is covered by header or footer when selenium scroll to it. Try before your click scroll page up.

 JavaScriptExecutor.ExecuteScript("window.scrollTo(0, 0);");

Answer 3

first, get your windows size:

driver.get_window_size()

if your window size less than your clickable area (clickable at point (width=1750, height=770)), you need to resize your selenium driver's windows size;

driver.set_window_size(1750,800)