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When using selenium, click events are triggered, and the following exceptions are often reported:

Element is not clickable at point

Causes and Solutions

There are four reasons

1. Not loaded

Wait for the element to be loaded before proceeding
you can use the python library

import time 
time.sleep(3)

But it’s better to use selenium’s own webdriverwait

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.title_contains("element"))

For the specific usage of webdriverwait, please click the reference document

2. In iframe

If the element is in the iframe, you can’t find it in the window, and you can’t click it. So, switch to iframe to find the element

driver.switch_to_frame("frameName")  # Switching by frame name
driver.switch_to_frame("frameName.0.child") # child frame
driver.switch_to_default_content() # return

For other related switching, please click the reference document

3. Not in the window, need to pull the scroll bar

The list page of many websites does not return all the contents immediately, but is displayed according to the view. Therefore, we need to drag the scroll bar to display the content to be obtained in the window

page = driver.find_element_by_partial_link_text(u'next page')
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(false);"， page)
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, u'next page'))).click()

About the contents of the drop-down scroll bar, please refer to the blog

4. The element to be clicked is covered

You can use the event chain to solve
problems, such as drop-down menus, which can be displayed through the hover, and then you can click

menu = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".nav")
hidden_submenu = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".nav #submenu1")

ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(menu).click(hidden_submenu).perform()

For details of the event chain, please click document