click command in selenium webdriver does not work

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I have just recently done an export of my selenium IDE code to selenium web driver  I have found that a lot of the commands that worked in IDE either fail to work or selenium web driver claims to not support at all  So far I ve been tackling these issues one at a time which is less than ideal     Currently I m working on finding out why clicking on a button does not work with web driver while it had previously worked in selenium IDE  My browser is FF 13 and my OS is Ubuntu   Code Snippet  WebElement loginButton   driver findElement By name  submit     loginButton click      I had previously tried  driver findElement By name  submit    click      however the above line failed as well  The element is getting selected  however it does not log us in as I would like  I found other pages with similar problems  but their problem seemed to be with Internet Explorer not Firefox  I don t even want to think about the problems IE will give me down the road   thanks   P S  A tip on a better way to migrate from selenium IDE to Selenium Webdriver without losing all the tests I ve written could solve this issue as well

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I was working with EasyRepro  and when I debugged my code it was clicking on the element which is visible and enabled  and not navigating as expected  But finally I understood the root cause for the issue   My Chrome was zoomed out 90   Once i reset the zoom level  it clicked on the correct element and successfully navigated to next page

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A major thing to watch out for is whether a button is Enabled or not   You can still click them and nothing will fall over and the element is there but it is not ready to be clicked on so just doesnt do anything   I ve been using webdriver and its taken me most of the day to figure this out   The following method seems to work reliably  in my environment for one button        private void TryClick By selector                var wait   WaitUpTo TimeSpan FromSeconds 10            var element   wait Until ExpectedConditions ElementIsVisible  selector                really important bit          WaitUpTo TimeSpan FromSeconds 5                Until d   gt  element Enabled            element Click            you use it something like  TryClick By XPath    button contains       Some Text

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WebElement click   click is found to be not working if the page is zoomed in or out  I had my page zoomed out to 85   If you reset the page zooming in browser using  ctrl     and ctrl   -   to 100   clicks will start working  Issue was found with chrome version 86 0 4240 111

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Thanks for all the answers everyone  I have found a solution  turns out I didn t provide enough code in my question   The problem was NOT with the click   function after all  but instead related to cas authentication used with my project  In Selenium IDE my login test executed a  open  command to the following location     cas login service https 1F 8FAPPNAME 2FMOREURL 2Fj spring cas security   That worked  I exported the test to Selenium webdriver which naturally preserved that location  The command in Selenium Webdriver was    driver get baseUrl     cas login service https 1A 2F 8FAPPNAME 2FMOREURL 2Fj spring cas security      For reasons I have yet to understand the above failed  When I changed it to    driver get baseUrl    MOREURL       The click command suddenly started to work    I will edit this answer if I can figure out why exactly this is   Note  I obscured the URLs used above to protect my company s product

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If you know for sure that the element is present  you could try this to simulate the click - if  Click   isn t working  driver findElement By name  submit    sendKeys Keys RETURN     or  driver findElement By name  submit    sendKeys Keys ENTER

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This is a long standing issue with chromedriver still present in 2020    In Chrome I changed from a zoom of 90  to 100  and that solved the problem  ref  I find TheLifeOfSteve s answer more reliable

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There s nothing wrong with either version of your code  Whatever is causing this  that s not it   Have you triple checked your locator  Your element definitely has name submit not id submit

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I was using firefox and some reason  it was not taking the click command though from past 2months it was working  My feeling was to make use of sendKeys and this page solved the problem  Now I am using sendKeys Keys Enter

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Please refer here https   code google com p selenium issues detail id 6756 In crux  Please open the system display settings and ensure that font size is set to 100   It worked surprisingly

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