Unable to click the checkbox via Selenium in Python

Question

Why am I unable to click the following checkbox on the page https://realty.yandex.ru/add via Selenium in Python?

import traceback

import selenium.webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
import selenium.webdriver.support
import selenium.webdriver.support.ui


explicit_wait_timeout_secs = 10


def wait_for_element_presence(driver, find_type, web_element):
    return selenium.webdriver.support.ui.WebDriverWait(driver, explicit_wait_timeout_secs).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((find_type, web_element)))


def wait_for_element_clickable(driver, find_type, web_element):
    return selenium.webdriver.support.ui.WebDriverWait(driver, explicit_wait_timeout_secs).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((find_type, web_element)))


try:
    driver = selenium.webdriver.Chrome()

    driver.get('https://realty.yandex.ru/add/')

    # element = wait_for_element_clickable(driver, By.NAME, 'lift')  # TimeoutException
    element = wait_for_element_presence(driver, By.NAME, 'lift')  # WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Element is not clickable at point (203, 899). Other element would receive the click: <span class="checkbox__box">...</span>
    element.click()
except Exception:
    print('ERROR: \n' + traceback.format_exc())

try:
    driver.quit()
except Exception:
    pass

If I'm trying to wait for the "clickability" of this element, it gives me TimeoutException error. If I'm trying to wait for the presence of the element, it gives me "element is not clickable" error.

However, I can click this checkbox via Javascript:

driver.execute_script("document.getElementsByName('lift')[0].click();")

Also it works in Firefox btw.

Why? What am I doing wrong? How can I fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You need to click on the span tag that is a parent of a parent of the input tag with name="lift":

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[span/input[@name="lift"]]')
element.click()

Works for me in both Chrome and Firefox:

To be safe, you can also scroll to an element before clicking:

def scroll_element_into_view(driver, element):
    """Scroll element into view"""
    y = element.location['y']
    driver.execute_script('window.scrollTo(0, {0})'.format(y))

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[span/input[@name="lift"]]')
scroll_element_into_view(driver, element)
element.click()