Chromedriver Element is not clickable at point (xx

Question

I am getting the following dreaded error when using Chromedriver with Selenium:

"org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable at point (xxx, yyy). Other element would receive the click: ..."

I know this has been discussed here

However my situation is a bit different in the sense if I put a delay of about 5s and then click it works fine. I don't have to do anything special, just wait.

I know I can force a click by using JS or Actions, but I want a more elegant way of handling this i.e. only click button when button becomes clickable. The problem is I don't know how to check and see if the button is clickable or not.

I've tried the following but neither work:

1) ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable
2) ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I can think of two options you could try:

JavaScript

Check the Document.readyState property that describes the loading state of the document:

JavascriptExecutor jsExecutor = (JavascriptExecutor) input;
return jsExecutor.executeScript("return document.readyState;").equals("complete");

You can just wait for it to become "complete". Might not be work in many cases but worth a try.

Loop

That's probably the simplest solution. Not sure about its elegance but should do the job without wasting more time than needed (This is just a very basic example, this code should not be used as-is):

while (true) {
    try {
        element.click();
    } catch (WebDriverException e) {
        // ignore
        Thread.sleep(millis);
    }

Answer 2

I handled this using custom waitAndClick() method which uses recursion as following:

int waitCounter = 0;

// Wait for an element to become clickable

public static void WaitAndClick(WebElement elementToBeClicked) throws InterruptedException, IOException {


    try
    {


        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20);
        WebDriverWait wait1 = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20);



        wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(elementToBeClicked));
                wait1.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(elementToBeClicked));

        elementToBeClicked.click();

    }

    catch(Exception  e)

    {
        MethodLibrary.Logger_Info("Element not clicked yet. waiting some more for " + elementToBeClicked);

        if(waitCounter <3){

            waitCounter++;

            WaitAndClick(elementToBeClicked);
        }

        waitCounter = 0;


    }



}