How to check if an element is clickable or not using Selenium WebDriver

Question

I have a container, which contains number of elements. I am looping thru the elements. My question is what is the syntax for checking if the element is not clickable.

Supranatural

Possible duplicate of Selenium WebDriver - determine if element is clickable (i.e. not obscured by dojo modal lightbox) – Jocular

Answer 1

Following should make it work -

element.is_displayed() and element.is_enabled()

This code is in Python. You can change it to the language of your choice.

Cribble

Answer 2

The existing methods, isDisplayed and isEnabled cannot check for whether the element is clickable or not.

If you want to wait for element till it is clickable and then click it, you may like to look this: Selenium WebDriver - determine if element is clickable (i.e. not obscured by dojo modal lightbox)

Actually, it may be difficult to check whether the element is clickable or not without actually clicking it.

Corcyra

if selenium tries to click and element and can't, does it notify the client by returning a certain value or anything? – Improvisator

It depends on the variety of conditions, we do have StaleElementExceptions, ElementNotVisibleException, etc but in some cases there may be possibility that a click has been captured but click event did not happened and we do not have any way to track that. – Corcyra

Answer 3

You can try the following if else condition

if(driver.findElement(By.xpath("--xpath of the clickable content")).isEnabled())
{
System.out.println("Element is clickable");
}
else
{
System.out.println("Element is not clickable");
}

Criseyde

You can do assertion instead of if else also – Ghassan

It being enabled does not directly mean it is clickable - for example, it maybe enabled but covered by another div. – Grassplot

Answer 4

One option is to do the following.

from selenium.common.exceptions import WebDriverException    
try:
  element.click()
  # add to list of clickable elements
except WebDriverException:
  print "Element is not clickable"

Annadiana

Answer 5

try:
   WebDriverWait(driver, 1).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(loc))
except:
   # not clickable
else:
   # clickable

Athodyd

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Answer 6

You can create a custom keyword for it, but if element is displayed and enabled is required, but it's not all the conditions that make element clickable.

Example of custom keyword in custom lib:

from selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement import WebElement as webelement

def web_element_is_clickable(self, webelement):
    return webelement.is_displayed() and webelement.is_enabled()

Murtagh

Answer 7

desplegar = bot.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="login-button"]')
try:
    if desplegar.is_enabled:
        desplegar.click()
    else:
         break
except:
    desplegar = None

Grantley

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