Python & Selenium: ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: element click intercepted error

Question

I use Selenium in Python for scraping.

The following error is displayed when I try to click button tag.

ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: element click intercepted: Element <button id="pos-list" class="menu-btn-normal">...</button> is not clickable at point

HTML

<div id="order-bar"> <div id="order-bar-menu"> <button id="order-list" class="menu-btn-select">orderlist</button> <button id="pos-list" class="menu-btn-normal">positionlist</button> ... 

Python

pos = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="pos-list"]'))) print(pos.text) pos.click() 

print(pos.text) is printed as positionlist I expected.

How can I click this button element?

It would be appreciated if you could give me some hint.

Answer 1

Try:

pos = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[text()="positionlist"]'))) pos.click() 

OR

pos = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="order-bar"]/div/button'))) pos[1].click() 

OR js execute and click()

pos = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="pos-list"]'))) driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", pos)