[selenium] click command in selenium webdriver does not work

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 => element.Enabled);

        element.Click();
    }

you use it something like

TryClick(By.XPath("//button[contains(.//*,'Some Text')]"));

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