Element is not clickable at this point. Other element would receive the click

Question

The exception is

`WebDriverException: Message: Element is not clickable at point (548.xxxxxxxxx, 2xx.5). Other element would receive the click: <span class="regs2" style="" id="vtASRSettings_incompletetimeoutDiv" onclick="Bs_Objects[5].textboxEdit(true);"></span>`

I have the following HTML code:

<a title="Audio" href="javascript:document.forms[0].action='/PageEditor?ADC_TOKEN=F5TW-I6G7-8Q0Z-WR8A-45QE-ICUX-LCRM-FZJM&command=addSoundFileError&errorType=noSpeech';document.forms[0].submit();">Audio</a>
    </td>

My script code is

    Wait Until Element Is Visible         xpath=(//a[contains(text(),'Audio')])
        Click Link          xpath=(//a[contains(text(),'Audio')])

Still faces the same error

Answer 1

Typically when I get this error it is due to a timing issue. Even after waiting for a certain element to display before clicking the link, it's possible for something to intermittently load or take focus away. Then when your code attempts to click it will click something that wasn't meant to be clicked.

The easiest way to determine if this is the problem is to add an implicit wait for a few seconds to see if the page stabilizes, prior to doing your element visible detection. If you wait for a few seconds, the page may stabilize and then your click will succeed. From there you can best determine how to do the additional explicit waits (hopefully) which are better than the implicit waits.

Answer 2

Using xpath or css doesn't matter in this case. First of all find the element which would receive the click (@id='vtASRSettings_incompletetimeoutDiv'). If this element disappear afer some time just wait until element disappear. Sometimes it is necessary to move or scroll, but we can't say without seeing the problem. Would be great if you provide some screenshot.

Answer 3

Try using css instead of xpath and use an exact match instead of contains and look at an element or attribute rather than text.

So

Try using css=(a[title='Audio'])

If necessary isolate by table or td, for example css=(table#some_id a[title='Audio'])

Answer 4

Use Actions class of webdriver to fix this issue:

 Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()='Audio']"))).click().build().perform();

Hope this will help you.

Answer 5

Scroll Element Into View     xpath=(//a[contains(text(),'Audio')])
Sleep    0.5s
Click Element    xpath=(//a[contains(text(),'Audio')])

Answer 6

It is possible that the element is visible, but not yet clickable.

So, better try wait for element clickable.

Answer 7

you can use

click element at coordinates 'element locator' 0 0