How to click an element visible after hovering with selenium?

Question

I want to click a button which is visible after hovering. Its html is:

<span class="info"></span> 

I used this code:

import selenium.webdriver as webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains url = "http://example.com" driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.get(url) element = driver.find_element_by_class_name("info") hov = ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(element) hov.perform() element.click() 

It's not working though. I got a an error connected with the last line of code element.click():

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: \ u'Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with' 

Any suggestions please?

Answer 1

I bet you should wait for the element until it becomes visible.

Three options:

• call time.sleep(n)
• use WebDriverWait like it's suggested here and here

I'd go with the second option.

UPD:

On this particular site hovering via selenium didn't work at all, so the only option was to click on the button using js via execute_script:

driver.execute_script('$("span.info").click();') 

Hope that helps.