Element is not clickable at point (x,y.5) because another element obscures it

I am trying to click on an element but getting the error:

Element is not clickable at point (x,y.5)

because another element obscures it.

I have already tried moving to that element first and then clicking and also changing the co-ordinates by minimizing the window and then clicking, but both methods failed. The possible duplicate question has answers which I have already tried and none of them worked for me.

Also, the same code is working on a different PC.

How to resolve it?

Answer

There is possibly one thing you can do. It is very crude though, I’ll admit it straight away.

You can simulate a click on the element directly preceding the element in need, and then simulate a key press [TAB] and [ENTER].

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Actually, I’ve been seeing that error recently. I was using the usual .click() command provided by bare selenium – like driver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath).click().

I’ve found that using ActionChains solved that problem.

Something like ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(element).click().perform() worked for me.

You will need:

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains