Selenium "Element is not clickable at point" error in Firefox

Question

In regards to the Webdriver error

Element is not clickable at point (X, Y). Another element would recieve the click instead.

For ChromeDriver, this is addressed at Debugging "Element is not clickable at point" error, however the issue can occur in Firefox as well.

What are the best ways to resolve this when it occurs in FirefoxDriver?

Answer 1

This happens in the below cases-

• When the element is loaded into the DOM, but the position is not fixed on the UI. There can be some other div or images that are not loaded completely.

• The page is getting refreshed before it is clicking the element.

Workaround

• Use Thread.sleep before actions on each web element in UI, but it is not a good idea.
• Use WebDriverWait ExpectedConditions.

I was facing the same issue, the page load time was more and a loading icon was overlapping on entire web page.

To fix it, I have implemented WebDriverWait ExpectedConditions, which waits for the loading icon to disappear before performing click action on an element

Call this function before performing an action (I am using data driven framework)

public void waitForLoader () throws Exception  {
  try {
   String ObjectArray[]=ObjectReader.getObjectArray("LoadingIcon"); 
    if(checkElementDisplayed(ObjectArray[3],ObjectArray[2]))
    {
     WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(remotewebdriver,10); 
     wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath(ObjectArray[3])));
    }
   } catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
   System.out.println("The page is loaded successfully");
   }
  }