Verification of button's presence fails once button is clicked in Robot framework

Question

In Robotframework, the 'Click Button' keyword do clicks the button, but when it comes to check that the button doesn't exist anymore and it's clicked, sometimes additional check ( like Page Should Not Contain or Element Should Not Be Visible ) Is fails or the script can't find the button to click it.

What I have tried:

For loop to click button- Code below
Wait Until Keyword - Code below
Click element using Javascript

Issue is intermittant fails 1 of 5 times.How can I deal with this Problem?

//Code Samples 2 different ways to click the button

  1.
       Wait Until Page Contains Element ${BTN_BET} 60s
       Double Click Element ${BTN_BET}
       FOR ${INDEX} IN RANGE 100
       ${CHECK}= Run Keyword And Return Status Page Should Contain Element ${BTN_BET}
       Run Keyword If '${CHECK}' == "True" Double Click Element ${BTN_BET}
       Run Keyword If '${CHECK}' == "False" Exit For Loop
       END
       Page Should Contain
      ... You clicked the button

  2.

    Wait Until Keyword Succeeds 60s 0.5s Page Should Contain Element ${BTN_BET}
    Sleep 2s
    Wait Until Keyword Succeeds 30s 0.5s Execute JavaScript document.evaluate             
    ('${BTN_BET}',document.body,null,9,null).singleNodeValue.click()
    Sleep 5s
    Wait Until Page Contains Element //div[@class='results-warning' and .='Wait 
    for another stage'] 40s
    Page Should Contain
    ... You clicked the button

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Vladyslav Koval Vladyslav Koval · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-26T17:39:02

So, I found out good decision that resolves my problem. I rewrote the FOR loop in that way

FOR ${INDEX} IN RANGE 20
    ${BET_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED} = Run Keyword And Return Status Page Should Contain Element ${BTN_BET}
    Run Keyword If '${BET_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED}' == "True" Click Button ${BTN_BET}
    Sleep 1s
    Continue For Loop If ${BET_BUTTON_NOT_PRESSED} == "False"
END

The problem was in the button, it did not disappear immediately, but when I added 'Sleep 1s' in my loop - 10 of 10 tries was passed. I think that the problem itself is javascript is loading too slow.

Verification of button's presence fails once button is clicked in Robot framework

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