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See attached image. The element is visible to me as a user, but I keep getting the ElementNotVisibleException error. It seems to locate the element via multiple methods, but the .click() fails. Is it just something dumb like checkboxes use a different method?
elem = self.web.find_element_by_css_selector("input[name='tos_agree']")
elem.click()
We sometimes have problems like this. I have found the easiest way to solve this is to use a wait function. I imagine that when the page is loaded the button is hidden and there is javascript to make it visible. Often times the driver will run faster than the javascript.
EDIT:
elem = self.web.find_element_by_id('tos_agree')
driver = self.web
elem_visible = WebDriverWait(self.web, 2).until(lambda driver : \ elem.is_displayed())
elem.click()
This seems to be the most clean solution using WebDrivers tools
driver = self.web elem = WebDriverWait(self.web, 2).until(lambda driver : \ driver.find_element_by_id('tos_agree')) elem.click()
time.sleep(5) elem = self.web.find_element_by_id('tos_agree') elem.click()
elem = self.web.find_element_by_id('tos_agree') driver = self.web elem_visible = WebDriverWait(self.web, 2).until(lambda driver : \ elem.is_displayed()) elem.click()
It's a bit unorthodox, but you could inject javascript into the webdriver to make the element visible. Assuming there's some js function in the page called "makeItVisible", you could do this:
mydriver.ExecuteScript("makeItVisible();");
It's a bit hacky, and remarkably white-box-y, but it may solve your problem.
I'm having a similar problem, however with a button that starts off being hidden, then I use a piece of javascript to unhide it when one of the other buttons is clicked - it definitely has something to do with the javascript, is it possible that selenium builds a list of visible elements when the page loads and then doesn't refresh that list when changes are made on the page, only when it navigates to a new page?
