org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Element is not currently visible while clicking a checkbox through SeleniumWebDriver and Java

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This complete error message is…

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with Command duration or timeout: 2.05 seconds

…implies that the desired element was not visible within the HTML DOM while the WebDriver instance was trying to find it.

ElementNotVisibleException

ElementNotVisibleException is thrown to indicate that although an element is present on the DOM Tree, it is not visible, and so is not able to be interacted with. It is a runtime exception and have the following hierarchy:

java.lang.RuntimeException
    org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException
        org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException
            org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotInteractableException
                org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException

Field Summary

The fields of this exception are inherited from class org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException and are as follows:

Modifier and Type                        Field and Description
---------------------------------        ---------------------
protected static java.lang.String        BASE_SUPPORT_URL 
static java.lang.String                  DRIVER_INFO 
static java.lang.String                  SESSION_ID

Reason

One possitive take away from ElementNotVisibleException is the fact that the WebElement is present within the HTML and this exception is commonly encountered when trying to click() or read an attribute of an element that is hidden from view.

Solution

As ElementNotVisibleException ensures that the WebElement is present within the HTML so the solution ahead would be two folds as per the next steps as detailed below:

  • If you next step is to read any attribute of the desired element, then you need to induce WebDriverWait in-conjunction with ExpectedConditions clause set to visibilityOfElementLocated as follows:

    //using id attribute
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("element_id"))).getAttribute("innerHTML");
//using linkText attribute          
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.linkText("element_linkText"))).getAttribute("innerHTML");
//using cssSelector     
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("element_cssSelector"))).getAttribute("innerHTML");
//using xpath           
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("element_xpath"))).getAttribute("innerHTML");

  • If you next step is to invoke click() on the desired element, then you need to induce WebDriverWait in-conjunction with ExpectedConditions clause set to elementToBeClickable as follows:

    //using id attribute
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("element_id"))).click();
//using linkText attribute          
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.linkText("element_linkText"))).click();
//using cssSelector     
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("element_cssSelector"))).click();
//using xpath           
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("element_xpath"))).click();

This usecase

The desired element is an Angular element so you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element to be clickable and you can use either of the following solutions:

  • cssSelector:

    new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("span.tix-checkbox input.ng-star-inserted[name="undefined"]"))).click();

  • xpath: 

    new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//span[@class="tix-checkbox"]//input[@class="ng-star-inserted" and @name="undefined"]"))).click();

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