Clicking at coordinates without identifying element

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As part of my Selenium test for a login function  I would like to click a button by identifying its coordinates and instructing Selenium to click at those coordinates  This would be done without identifying the element itself  via id  xpath  etc     I understand there are other more efficient ways to run a click command  but I m looking to specifically use this approach to best match the user experience  Thanks

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I used the Actions Class like many listed above, but what I found helpful was if I need find a relative position from the element I used Firefox Add-On Measurit to get the relative coordinates. For example:

        IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.Url = @"https://scm.commerceinterface.com/accounts/login/?next=/remittance_center/";
        var target = driver.FindElement(By.Id("loginAsEU"));
        Actions builder = new Actions(driver);            
        builder.MoveToElement(target , -375  , -436).Click().Build().Perform();

I got the -375, -436 from clicking on an element and then dragging backwards until I reached the point I needed to click. The coordinates that MeasureIT said I just subtracted. In my example above, the only element I had on the page that was clickable was the "loginAsEu" link. So I started from there.

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This can be done using Actions class in java  Use following code -  new Actions driver  moveByOffset x coordinate  y coordinate  click   build   perform       Note  Selenium 3 doesn t support Actions class for geckodriver  Also  note that x and y co-ordinates are relative values from current mouse position  Assuming mouse co-ordinates are at  0 0  to start with  if you want to use absolute values  you can perform the below action immediately after you clicked on it using the above code   new Actions driver  moveByOffset -x coordinate  -y coordinate  perform

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If you can see the source code of page  its always the best option to refer to the button by its id or NAME attribute  For example you have button  Login  looking like this     lt input type  submit  name  login  id  login    gt    In that case is best way to do  selenium click id  login      Just out of the curiosity - isnt that HTTP basic authentification  In that case maybe look at this  http   code google com p selenium issues detail id 34

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Selenium won t let you do this

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WebElement button   driver findElement By xpath    button  type  submit           int height   button getSize   getHeight        int width   button getSize   getWidth        Actions act   new Actions driver       act moveToElement button  moveByOffset  width 2  2  height 2  2  click

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In Selenium Java  you can try it using Javascript    x000D   x000D  WebDriver driver   new ChromeDriver    x000D   x000D  if  driver instanceof JavascriptExecutor    x000D     JavascriptExecutor  driver  executeScript  el   document elementFromPoint x-cordinate  y-cordinate   el click       x000D    x000D   x000D   x000D

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Action chains can be a little finicky  You could also achieve this by executing javascript   self driver execute script  el   document elementFromPoint 440  120   el click

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In C  API you use actions  var element   driver FindElement By      new Actions driver  moveToElement element  moveByOffset dx  dy  click   perform      Although it is best to just use simple Id  CSS  Xpath selectors when possible   But the functionality is there when needed  i e  clicking elements in certain geographic places for functionality

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I first used the JavaScript code  it worked amazingly until a website did not click   So I ve found this solution   First  import ActionChains for Python  amp  active it   from selenium webdriver common action chains import ActionChains actions   ActionChains driver    To click on a specific point in your sessions use this   actions move by offset X coordinates  Y coordinates  click   perform     NOTE  The code above will only work if the mouse has not been touched  to reset the mouse coordinates use this   actions move to element with offset driver find element by tag name  body    0 0     In Full   actions move to element with offset driver find element by tag name  body    0 0  actions move by offset X coordinates  Y coordinates  click   perform

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I used AutoIt to do it    using AutoIt  AutoItX MouseClick  LEFT  150 150 1 0    1  click once  0  Move instantaneous    Pro     simple regardless of mouse movement   Con     since coordinate is screen-based  there should be some caution if the app scales  the drive won t know when the app finish with clicking consequence actions  There should be a waiting period

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import pyautogui from selenium import webdriver  driver   webdriver Chrome chrome options options  driver maximize window    maximize the browser window driver implicitly wait 30  driver get url  height driver get window size    height     get browser navigation panel height browser navigation panel height   driver execute script  return window outerHeight - window innerHeight     act y y height scroll Y y height   scroll down page until y off is visible try      driver execute script  window scrollTo 0    str scroll Y height       except Exception as e      print  Exception   pyautogui used to generate click by passing x y coordinates pyautogui FAILSAFE False pyautogui moveTo x act y browser navigation panel height  pyautogui click x act y browser navigation panel height clicks 1 interval 0 0 button  left     This is worked for me  Hope  It will work for you guys

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There is a way to do this   Using the ActionChains API you can move the mouse over a containing element  adjust by some offset  relative to the middle of that element  to put the  cursor  over the desired button  or other element   and then click at that location   Here s how to do it using webdriver in Python   from selenium import webdriver from selenium webdriver common action chains import ActionChains browser   webdriver Chrome   elem   browser find element by selector   some  gt  selector   ac   ActionChains browser  ac move to element elem  move by offset x offset  y offset  click   perform     Y all are much to quick to dismiss the question   There are a number of reasons one might to need to click at a specific location  rather than on an element   In my case I have an SVG bar chart with an overlay element that catches all the clicks   I want to simulate a click over one of the bars  but since the overlay is there Selenium can t click on the element itself   This technique would also be valuable for imagemaps

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If using a commercial add-on to Selenium is an option for you  this is possible  Suppose your button is at coordinates x 123  y 456  Then you can use Helium to click on the element at these coordinates as follows  from helium api import     Tell Helium about your WebDriver instance  set driver driver  click Point 123  456     I am one of Helium s authors

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This worked for me in Java for clicking on coordinates irrespective on any elements   Actions actions   new Actions driver   actions moveToElement driver findElement By tagName  body     0  0   actions moveByOffset xCoordinate  yCoordinate  click   build   perform      Second line of code will reset your cursor to the top left corner of the browser view and last line will click on the x y coordinates provided as parameter

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