Unable to click the checkbox via Selenium in Python

Question

Why am I unable to click the following checkbox on the page https://realty.yandex.ru/add via Selenium in Python?

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import traceback

import selenium.webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
import selenium.webdriver.support
import selenium.webdriver.support.ui


explicit_wait_timeout_secs = 10


def wait_for_element_presence(driver, find_type, web_element):
    return selenium.webdriver.support.ui.WebDriverWait(driver, explicit_wait_timeout_secs).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((find_type, web_element)))


def wait_for_element_clickable(driver, find_type, web_element):
    return selenium.webdriver.support.ui.WebDriverWait(driver, explicit_wait_timeout_secs).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((find_type, web_element)))


try:
    driver = selenium.webdriver.Chrome()

    driver.get('https://realty.yandex.ru/add/')

    # element = wait_for_element_clickable(driver, By.NAME, 'lift')  # TimeoutException
    element = wait_for_element_presence(driver, By.NAME, 'lift')  # WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Element is not clickable at point (203, 899). Other element would receive the click: <span class="checkbox__box">...</span>
    element.click()
except Exception:
    print('ERROR: \n' + traceback.format_exc())

try:
    driver.quit()
except Exception:
    pass

If I'm trying to wait for the "clickability" of this element, it gives me TimeoutException error. If I'm trying to wait for the presence of the element, it gives me "element is not clickable" error.

However, I can click this checkbox via Javascript:

driver.execute_script("document.getElementsByName('lift')[0].click();")

Also it works in Firefox btw.

Why? What am I doing wrong? How can I fix it?

Thanks in advance.

There are multiple elements with the same name so that might be the reason what i believe, Instead of My name locator try using xpath locator with below value and see what happens. //label[contains(text(),'Лифт')] — Rupesh Shinde
– Rupesh Shinde, Commented Dec 30, 2014 at 14:27

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-30 17:57:19Z

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You need to click on the span tag that is a parent of a parent of the input tag with name="lift":

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[span/input[@name="lift"]]')
element.click()

Works for me in both Chrome and Firefox:

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To be safe, you can also scroll to an element before clicking:

def scroll_element_into_view(driver, element):
    """Scroll element into view"""
    y = element.location['y']
    driver.execute_script('window.scrollTo(0, {0})'.format(y))

element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[span/input[@name="lift"]]')
scroll_element_into_view(driver, element)
element.click()

answered Dec 30, 2014 at 17:57

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2 Comments

rifaco Over a year ago

Do you know why? Shouldn't it work to click on the checkbox itself?

alecxe Over a year ago

@rifaco well, this is a wonderful and mysterious world of browser automation and web-scraping - it really depends on how this particular web-page is implemented, cause there can be all sorts of techniques involved. Just trying to say that "shouldn't it work" is not a valid question - the only answer could be "it depends" :) Thanks.

surender pal · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-03 06:45:06Z

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we can use this to click on an element using Javascript

element=driver.find_element(By.ID,"sdd")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", element)

or

driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", driver.find_element(By.ID,"sdd"))

answered Nov 3, 2020 at 6:45

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