Selenium: Element not clickable ... Other Element Would Receive Click

Question

When running Selenium tests on my Django project, I've started to get the error:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Element is not clickable at point (61, 24.300003051757812). Other element would receive the click: <a class="navbar-brand" href="#"></a>

It is odd for two reasons: First, the tests previously passed and I have not edited that part of the code base. Second, when the Selenium-driven Firefox Window pops up and I maximize the page, the tests pass. But when I let the Selenium tests run with the Firefox browser not maximized, they fail.

I'm not using any fancy javascript (just the basic Bootstrap 3 template), just plain old html and css. I'm using Django 1.9 on Python 3.4. I've run pip to check for upgrades to Selenium, and I'm up to date.

Here is a pastebin link to the html of the output of my view and template.

One of the failing tests is:

def test_create_task_and_check_that_it_shows_up_in_the_task_manager_index_and_filter(self):
        # Create user
        self.user = User.objects.get(username=test_superuser_username)
        # Log the user in
        self.log_user_in(user_object=self.user, password=test_superuser_password)
        self.browser.implicitly_wait(10)
        # Pull up the main task manager page
        self.browser.get(str(self.live_server_url) + reverse('task_manager:index'))
        # Make sure we go to the task manager index
        task_index_url = str(self.live_server_url) + reverse('task_manager:index')
        self.browser.get(task_index_url)
        self.browser.implicitly_wait(4)
        self.assertTrue(str(task_index_url) == self.browser.current_url,
                        msg=('Assertion that current_url is %s failed. Current_url is %s' %
                             (str(reverse('task_manager:index')), self.browser.current_url)))
        # Click the 'add task' button on the sidebar
        add_task_taskbar_button = self.browser.find_element_by_name('add_task_sidebar_link')
        add_task_taskbar_button.click()

The last line produces the error:

ERROR: test_create_task_and_check_that_it_shows_up_in_the_task_manager_index_and_filter (tasks.tests.test_functional.SeleniumTest)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mint/Python_Projects/[project_name]/tasks/tests/test_functional.py", line 94, in test_create_task_and_check_that_it_shows_up_in_the_task_manager_index_and_filter
    add_task_taskbar_button.click()
  File "/home/mint/Python_Projects/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 75, in click
    self._execute(Command.CLICK_ELEMENT)
  File "/home/mint/Python_Projects/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webelement.py", line 469, in _execute
    return self._parent.execute(command, params)
  File "/home/mint/Python_Projects/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 201, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/home/mint/Python_Projects/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 194, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Element is not clickable at point (61, 24.300003051757812). Other element would receive the click: <a class="navbar-brand" href="#"></a>

Answer 1

Extremely late to the party, but I have an extremely simple solution that worked for me. Instead of doing .click(), simply do

.send_keys(selenium.webdriver.common.keys.Keys.SPACE)

With the element selected, the spacebar can toggle the selection. Worked for me!

Answer 2

Your Answer lies within your question.

1. Error says 'add_task_sidebar_link' not clickable at point - (61, 24.300003051757812) This is where another element is - Other element would receive the click: <a class="navbar-brand" href="#"></a> where the click is being attempted. Since you did not maximize the browser, you are not able to get the point co ordinates correctly.
2. In order for future tests to not break, pls scroll to that element. Refer to this post (Selenium python unable to scroll down). Check Action chains (http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/api.html#module-selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains)

Answer 3

Ran into a similar problem (same error) and tried Major Major's solution above using send_keys + sending the space bar to simulate a click rather than a mouse click.

Major Major's solution:

.send_keys(selenium.webdriver.common.keys.Keys.SPACE)

I hit a new error trying to run this, pointing at 'selenium'. Removing that keyword from the code fixed the issue, and allowed me to click the element.

Final successful code snippet used:

my_variable = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="myId"]') #this is the checkbox
my_variable.send_keys(webdriver.common.keys.Keys.SPACE)

Answer 4

I had the same issue: due to a pop-up window, the element I had to click on would drift off the screen and become unclickable.

Scrolling the page to the element worked.

In Python:

elem = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("html")
elem.send_keys(Keys.END)