How to avoid ElementClickInterceptedException when working with Selenium?

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I use selenium with python and want to mark a checkbox by clicking on it. After having identified the <input> tag of the checkbox with selenium, I attempt to click on it with

checkbox.click()

However, it throws the ElementClickInterceptedException.

I identify the checkbox I want to click on through a loop. When I try to click on the checkbox outside of the loop (by manually running the code after it was identified and saved to a variable), I found two things:

All things equal, I still get the exception
When I click in the browser window once (that was opened with selenium) and then run checkbox.click(), it works as expected

Any ideas why and how I could attempt to slove this issue (i.e. being able to click on the checkbox within the loop)?

Thanks!

Arundeep Chohan · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-24 23:35:29Z

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You either deal with the overlapping element or use javascript

driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", checkbox)

answered Jun 24, 2022 at 23:35

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Murthi · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-25 04:29:39Z

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Sometimes, the checkbox is not directly interactable. You may have to click on the label/text next to the checkbox.

or May be you have to wait till the element is clickable since your are running in a loop.

answered Jun 25, 2022 at 4:29

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