How to avoid ElementClickInterceptedException when working with Selenium?

Question

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!

Answer 1

You either deal with the overlapping element or use javascript

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