How do you fix the element not interactable exception

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I know this has been asked lots of times before but how do you get around the  element not interactable  exception   I m new to Selenium so excuse me if I get something wrong   Here is my code   button   driver find element by class name u infoDismiss   type button  button click   driver implicitly wait 10    Here is the HTML    lt button class  dismiss infoDismiss  gt       lt string for  inplay button dismiss  gt Dismiss lt  string gt   lt  button gt    And here is the error message   selenium common exceptions ElementNotInteractableException  Message     After is says message there is literally nothing   I have spent lots of time searching the web  not finding anything that solves my issue  I would really appreciate an answer   Thanks in advance   Edit  Changed  w  to driver so it is easier to read  Update  I have just realized that I ve found the HTML of the wrong button  The real button HTML is below    lt button class  dismiss  gt       lt string for  exit  gt Dismiss lt  string gt   lt  button gt    Also  I ve used the answers and comments and edited my code to look like this   button   driver find element by css selector  button dismiss   w implicitly wait 10  ActionChains w  move to element button  click button    And now I get a new error   selenium common exceptions WebDriverException  Message  Tried to run command without establishing a connection   The error happens in line 1  button   driver find element by css selector  button dismiss    Note  I really appreciate the help that has been given  thanks

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It s worth noting that there is a sleep function built into Selenium   driver implicitly wait 5

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I have found that using Thread sleep milliseconds  helps almost all the time for me  It takes time for the element to load hence it is not interactable  So i put Thread sleep   after selecting each value  So far this has helped me avoid the error   try  Thread sleep 3000    catch  InterruptedException e   e printStackTrace              Select nationalityDropdown new Select driver findElement By id  ContentPlaceHolderMain ddlNationality               nationalityDropdown selectByValue  Indian             try  Thread sleep 3000    catch  InterruptedException e   e printStackTrace

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I just ran into a similar issue and was able to fix it by waiting until the button was  quot clickable quot   from selenium import webdriver from selenium webdriver common by import By from selenium webdriver support ui import WebDriverWait from selenium webdriver support import expected conditions as EC  chrome options   webdriver ChromeOptions   chrome options add experimental option  useAutomationExtension   False  browser   webdriver Chrome    chromedriver   options chrome options   browser get   YOURWEBSITEHERE COM     button   WebDriverWait browser  10  until EC element to be clickable  By CSS SELECTOR   button dismiss     button click

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For those discovering this now and the above answers didn t work  the issue I had was the screen wasn t big enough  I added this when initializing my ChromeDriver  and it fixed the problem   options add argument  window-size 1200x600

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use id of the element except x path It will work 100

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Found a workaround years later after encountering the same problem again - unable to click element even though it SHOULD be clickable  The solution is to catch ElementNotInteractable exception and attempt to execute a script to click the element   Example in Typescript  async clickElement element  WebElement        try           return await element click          catch  error            if  error name     ElementNotInteractableError                 return await this driver executeScript  element  WebElement    gt                    element click                   element

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A possibility is that the element is currently unclickable because it is not visible  Reasons for this may be that another element is covering it up or it is not in view  i e  it is outside the currently view-able area   Try this  from selenium webdriver common action chains import ActionChains  button   driver find element by class name u infoDismiss   driver implicitly wait 10  ActionChains driver  move to element button  click button  perform

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I know you may have found the answer   but if there  were people looking for it  in the future  they may find the solution OK  straight to the point  I had a similar problem like this one  When you are usually staring to use this library  selenium webdriver   one thing that can make you angry is not to know how to use the  library  quot  import time  quot  that is very import for breaking  this type of   quot  barrier  quot   Follow the code snippet below  Well  my solution was simple and objective  Remembering that you must wait for the element to be clickable  interactable   which is  first use the technique of searching for element by xpath  buttonNoInteractable   browser find element by xpath   html body div 2  div div div 2  div div div 2  div table 2  thead tr th 2  input    buttonNoIteractable click   time sleep 10  Or it can be by class name  Use the amount of seconds you need  if you have a slow connection  put it in 30 seconds  or if it is fast  a few seconds less is enough  for example  quot time sleep  10  quot   As I said  for me this solution worked very well using python  send   browser find element by name  stacks   send click

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The error  Message  element not interactable  mostly occurs when your element is not clickable or it is not visible yet  and you should click or choose one other element before it  Then your element will get displayed and you can modify it   You can check if your element is visible or not by calling is displayed   method like this     print  Element is visible      str element name is displayed

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For the html code   test html   lt button class  dismiss   onclick  alert  hello    gt       lt string for  exit  gt Dismiss lt  string gt   lt  button gt    the below python code worked for me  You can just try it   from selenium import webdriver import time  driver   webdriver Chrome   driver get  http   localhost gp test html   button   driver find element by class name  dismiss   button click   time sleep 5  driver quit

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It will be better to use xpath  from selenium import webdriver driver get  www example com   button   driver find element by xpath  xpath   button click

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