Python Selenium: Element currently not visible

Question

I have this page. I have to click on Facebook icon. Upon doing it I m getting:

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with

Code is given below:

if 'log' in html.lower():
        print("not logged in")
        sleep(3)
        #Click on Fb button
        fb_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//a[@tooltip="Facebook"]')
        fb_element.vis
        fb_element.send_keys(Keys.TAB)

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-01 02:28:54Z

1

There is an another element with tooltip="Facebook" on the page and this element is actually invisible. Well, there are actually 10 of them:

> $x('//a[@tooltip="Facebook"]').length
10

You can find find all elements matching your locator and filter the visible one via next() and is_displayed():

facebook_links = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//a[@tooltip="Facebook"]')
visible_link = next(link for link in facebook_links if link.is_displayed())
visible_link.click()

answered May 1, 2016 at 2:28

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Volatil3 Over a year ago

Ah - So my assumption to have only one such element was wrong. Your code worked like charm. Thanks!

alecxe Over a year ago

@Volatil3 yeah, I've also briefly tried to narrow down the locator to make it uniquely identify the desired link, but I've got 5 instead of 10 at best with my attempts. Filter visible only does not sound like a bad idea in this case :)

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