ElementNotVisibleException error in Python/Selenium

Question

I'm getting this error when I run this Python/Selenium script.

File "./a.py", line 21, in <module>
elem = driver.find_element_by_id("licensees").click()
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException: Message:

Here is the html code

<p>
    <button onClick="myloginwindow1('')" value="Login Now" name="licensees" id="licensees">

      <p>Licensee Login</p>

</button>   

</p>

Here is the code.

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

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://xxxxx.com")

assert "xxxxxxxx" in driver.title

try:
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(
    EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "licensees"))
)

elem = driver.find_element_by_id("licensees").click()

finally:
    driver.quit()

When I remove

elem = driver.find_element_by_id("licensees").click()

I don't get an error.

jajb · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-16 15:06:08Z

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You can also execute the script that's executed when clicking the button. This way you won't need to wait for the element to be clickable.

    driver.execute_script(
    "myloginwindow1('')"
    )

answered Jun 16, 2019 at 15:06

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NarendraR · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-02 14:01:11Z

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Use visibilityOfElementLocated instead of presence_of_element_located

presenceOfElementLocated don't care whether if element visible or not, It just checks element is on the page

try:
     WebDriverWait(driver, 60).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "licensees"))).click()

answered Feb 2, 2017 at 14:01

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Ian Lesperance · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-07 16:42:20Z

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As mentioned elsewhere, presence is different than visibility.

But with capybara-py, you don’t have to think about either:

from capybara.dsl import page

page.visit("...")
page.assert_title("...")
page.click_button("Licensee Login")

Here, click_button() waits for the button to be interactable.

(Similarly, assert_title() waits for the title to match, in case, e.g., the page takes a while to fully load.)

answered Feb 7, 2018 at 16:42

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