org.openqa.selenium.ElementClickInterceptedException: element click intercepted error using Selenium and Java in headless mode

This error message… org.openqa.selenium.ElementClickInterceptedException: element click intercepted: Element <label _ngcontent-yrc-c26=”” formcontrolname=”reportingDealPermission” nz-checkbox=”” class=”ant-checkbox-wrapper ng-untouched ng-pristine ng-valid” ng-reflect-name=”reportingDealPermission”>…</label> is not clickable at point (161, 562). Other element would receive the click: <div _ngcontent-yrc-c26=”” class=”footer”>…</div> …implies that the click on the desired element was intercepted by some other element. Clicking an element Ideally, while invoking click() on … Read more

How to handle HTML constraint validation pop-up using Selenium?

The popup which you are referring is the outcome of Constraint API’s element.setCustomValidity() method. Note: HTML5 Constraint validation doesn’t remove the need for validation on the server side. Even though far fewer invalid form requests are to be expected, invalid ones can still be sent by non-compliant browsers (for instance, browsers without HTML5 and without … Read more

Selenium Webdriver – Stale element exception when clicking on multiple dropdowns while HTML DOM doesn’t change

When you select Insurance Test Client then only you get the option Product Insurance, which essentially means the HTML DOM gets changed, which results in StaleElementException. To avoid that, once we select from the first dropdown, we need to induce some wait for the elements of the second dropdown to render in the HTML DOM. … Read more

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

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 … Read more

Selecting options using Selenium and Python

To select the select-options with text as CSV from the html-select tag using Selenium you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies: Using CSS_SELECTOR: select = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, “select.Select[name=”Format”]”)))) select.select_by_visible_text(“CSV”) Using XPATH: select = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, “//select[@class=”Select” and @name=”Format”]”)))) select.select_by_visible_text(“CSV”) Note : You have to … Read more

NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element while trying to click on the button VISA through Selenium and Python

The button to create a checkout on my bot seems to be a Credit Card related field and historically Credit Card related fields resides within <iframe>. You can find a couple of relevant discussions in: Unable to locate element of credit card number using selenium python org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Returned node (null) was not a DOM element … Read more

How to click on the anchor element when the spinner obscures it using Selenium and Python?

To click() on the element with text as Driver Schedule as it is an <a> node you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies: Using LINK_TEXT: WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.invisibility_of_element((By.CSS_SELECTOR, “div.app-spinner-layer.active”))) WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, “Driver Schedule”))).click() Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT: WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.invisibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, “//div[@class=”app-spinner-layer active”]”))) WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, “Driver Schedule”))).click() Using CSS_SELECTOR: … Read more

Why do some elements exist but not interactable/displayed?

Precisesly Selenium deals with three unique states of an element. Presence of element within the html: This state of an element can be detected through the ExpectedCondition presenceOfElementLocated() where the expectation is to check if the element is present in the DOM of a page. This does not necessarily mean that the element is visible. … Read more

How to properly configure Implicit / Explicit Waits and pageLoadTimeout through Selenium?

implicitlyWait() implicitlyWait() is to tell the WebDriver instance i.e. driver to poll the HTML DOM for a certain amount of time when trying to find an element or elements if they are not immediately available. The default wait configuration is set to 0. Once set, the implicit wait is set for the life of the … Read more