Element is not clickable at point (617, 690.5). Other element would receive the click: <th>...</th> (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError)

Question

I get the error above when trying to press the "add" button on the integration test I am trying to implement. I thought that was a delay with the javascript, and I tried the following, but none of them worked:

Then /^I should click "([^"]*)"$/ do |selector|
  # if page.should have_selector(selector)
  # find(selector).click
  # end
  # page.execute_script("$(#{selector}).click()")
  find(selector).click
end

I tried all of the above, but that didn't solve the problem.

Answer 1

This is hardly a great answer, but I'll give it anyway...

I've only ever seen this problem when testing with Chrome. There are two solutions that worked for me:

• Use Firefox instead of Chrome
• Instead of find(selector).click, use page.execute_script("$(#{selector}).click()")

But since you've tried the second option and it didn't work, try using Firefox instead. Sorry :(