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

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I used explicit waits and I have the warning:

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable at point (36, 72). Other element would receive the click: ... Command duration or timeout: 393 milliseconds

If I use Thread.sleep(2000) I don't receive any warnings.

@Test(dataProvider = "menuData")
public void Main(String btnMenu, String TitleResultPage, String Text) throws InterruptedException {
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
    driver.findElement(By.id("navigationPageButton")).click();

    try {
       wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector(btnMenu)));
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Oh");
    }
    driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(btnMenu)).click();
    Assert.assertEquals(driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(TitleResultPage)).getText(), Text);
}
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9 Answers

I ran into this error while trying to click some element (or its overlay, I didn't care), and the other answers didn't work for me. I fixed it by using the elementFromPoint DOM API to find the element that Selenium wanted me to click on instead:

element_i_care_about = something()
loc = element_i_care_about.location
element_to_click = driver.execute_script(
    "return document.elementFromPoint(arguments[0], arguments[1]);",
    loc['x'],
    loc['y'])
element_to_click.click()

I've also had situations where an element was moving, for example because an element above it on the page was doing an animated expand or collapse. In that case, this Expected Condition class helped. You give it the elements that are animated, not the ones you want to click. This version only works for jQuery animations.

class elements_not_to_be_animated(object):
    def __init__(self, locator):
        self.locator = locator

    def __call__(self, driver):
        try:
            elements = EC._find_elements(driver, self.locator)
            # :animated is an artificial jQuery selector for things that are
            # currently animated by jQuery.
            return driver.execute_script(
                'return !jQuery(arguments[0]).filter(":animated").length;',
                elements)
        except StaleElementReferenceException:
            return False
user_881980

Scrolling the page to the near by point mentioned in the exception did the trick for me. Below is code snippet:

$wd_host = 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub';
$capabilities =
    [
        \WebDriverCapabilityType::BROWSER_NAME => 'chrome',
        \WebDriverCapabilityType::PROXY => [
            'proxyType' => 'manual',
            'httpProxy' => PROXY_DOMAIN.':'.PROXY_PORT,
            'sslProxy' => PROXY_DOMAIN.':'.PROXY_PORT,
            'noProxy' =>  PROXY_EXCEPTION // to run locally
        ],
    ];
$webDriver = \RemoteWebDriver::create($wd_host, $capabilities, 250000, 250000);
...........
...........
// Wait for 3 seconds
$webDriver->wait(3);
// Scrolls the page vertically by 70 pixels 
$webDriver->executeScript("window.scrollTo(0, 70);");

NOTE: I use Facebook php webdriver

user_12953210

If element is not clickable and overlay issue is ocuring we use arguments[0].click().

WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='input-group-btn']/input"));
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", ele);
user_68275930

The best solution is to override the click functionality:

public void _click(WebElement element){
    boolean flag = false;
    while(true) {
        try{
            element.click();
            flag=true;
        }
        catch (Exception e){
            flag = false;
        }
        if(flag)
        {
            try{
                element.click();
            }
            catch (Exception e){
                System.out.printf("Element: " +element+ " has beed clicked, Selenium exception triggered: " + e.getMessage());
            }
            break;
        }
    }
}
user_22742040

In C#, I had problem with checking RadioButton, and this worked for me:

driver.ExecuteJavaScript("arguments[0].checked=true", radio);
user_5793810

Can try with below code

 WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);

Pass other element would receive the click:<a class="navbar-brand" href="#"></a>

    boolean invisiable = wait.until(ExpectedConditions
            .invisibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[@class='navbar-brand']")));

Pass clickable button id as shown below

    if (invisiable) {
        WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='button']");
        ele.click();
    }
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