How to click on hidden element in Selenium WebDriver

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I have a grid which displays some records  When I click on a record and inspect that element it is shown that it is hidden but it is visible in the grid    My HTML is    lt a href  http   192 168 1 6 eprint prod 3 8 settings othercost add aspx type edit amp id 805  title  Plastic Spiral Bind   lt div style  float  left  width  99   overflow  hidden  height  15px  overflow  hidden  gt  Plastic Spiral Bind  lt  div gt   lt  a gt    The above code is hidden while inspecting but it is visible in grid   Selenium code   driver findElement By partialLinkText  Plastic Spiral Bind    click

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Here is the script in Python   You cannot click on elements in selenium that are hidden  However  you can execute JavaScript to click on the hidden element for you    element   driver find element by id buttonID  driver execute script    arguments 0   click      element

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First store that element in object  let s say element and then write following code to click on that hidden element   JavascriptExecutor js    JavascriptExecutor driver  js executeScript  arguments 0  click      element

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Use an XPath of the link by using Selenium IDE to click the element   driver findelement By xpath    a contains  title    Plastic Spiral Bind        click

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overflow hidden    does not always mean that the element is hidden or non existent in the DOM  it means that the overflowing chars that do not fit in the element are being trimmed  Basically it means that do not show scrollbar even if it should be showed  so in your case the link with text      Plastic Spiral Bind   could possibly be shown as  Plastic Spir     or similar  So it is possible  that this linkText indeed is non existent    So you can probably try   driver findElement By partialLinkText  Plastic     click      or xpath     a contains  title    Plastic Spiral Bind

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If the  lt div gt  has id or name then you can use find element by id or find element by name  You can also try with class name  css and xpath  find element by class name find element by css selector find element by xpath

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I did it with jQuery   page execute script  Q      some id   prop  checked   true

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You have two approaches  Selenium has been specifically written to NOT allow interaction with hidden elements  The rational is that if a person cannot perform that action  then neither should Selenium  Therefore  to perform the click via Selenium  you must perform the action a user would do to make that button visible  e g mouse over event  click another element  etc  then perform the click once visible   However  Selenium does allow you to execute Javascript within the context of an element  so you could write Javascript to perform the click event even if it is hidden   My preference is to always try and perform the actions to make the button visible

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