I am testing a webapp created with python dash using selenium. I am trying to click a tab but always get the ElementClickIntercepted Exception.

Note: Of course I stumbled over similiar problems but most times the problem is that the element cannot be clicked as is did not load yet - I already built in waits! - or the fact that another element would receive the click which cannot be the case either. Note that the first item is always preselected and i want to choose the second.

#Selct X-Axis
x_axis = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='navbar']/a[2]")
x_axis.click()
driver.implicitly_wait(2)
try:
    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
    EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//a[text()='Even']"))  
)
except:
    raise Exception
even= driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[text()='Even']")
even.click()

Exception snapshot:

HTML snapshot:

CodePudding user response：

Based on what you've posted, By.XPATH, "//a[text()='Even']" is probably selecting an HTML element different from what you're expecting.

There appears to be an <a> with text that starts with 'Even', but you've shown nothing with text that equals 'Even'.

BTW, when asking a question, you ought to at least paste the relevant HTML as text, rather than as a screenshot.

CodePudding user response：

Use contains(text(), 'even') instead of text()='even' in your XPath. Because, text()='even' means the text must be 'even' but not contain 'even', and in your HTML code, the text seems not only have 'even'.

CodePudding user response：

To click on either of the element instead of presence_of_element_located() you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• $$$ Response:

  • Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Response"))).click()
    

  • Using XPATH:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[starts-with(@id, 'content')]//ul//div[@class='nav-item']//a[contains(., 'Response')]"))).click()
    

• Even $$$:

  • Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Even"))).click()
    

  • Using XPATH:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[starts-with(@id, 'content')]//ul//div[@class='nav-item']//a[starts-with(., 'Even')]"))).click()
    

• Note: You have to add the following imports :

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