Random Errors Using Wait for Element Clickable Method in Selenium

Random errors using wait for element clickable method in Selenium

This is what I use in a framework I've created. It eats ElementClickInterceptedException and StaleElementReferenceException and keeps trying until the timeout or success. It got rid of a lot of issues like what you are talking about. There are other ways to do it specific to each page but I found that this works really well in a large number of scenarios.

/// <summary>
/// Clicks on an element
/// </summary>
/// <param name="locator">The locator used to find the element.</param>
/// <param name="timeOut">[Optional] How long to wait for the element (in seconds). The default timeOut is 10s.</param>
public void Click(By locator, int timeOut = 10)
{
    DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
    while (DateTime.Now < now.AddSeconds(timeOut))
    {
        try
        {
            new WebDriverWait(Driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeOut)).Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(locator)).Click();

            return;
        }

        catch (ElementClickInterceptedException)
        {
            // do nothing, loop again
        }
        catch (StaleElementReferenceException)
        {
            // do nothing, loop again
        }
    }

    throw new Exception($"Unable to click element <{locator}> within {timeOut}s.");
}

Selenium not randomly clicking (No Error Code)

Your code waits for the elements to be clickable, but never actually clicks on the elements.

One possible solution:

clickMe= wait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,'(//div[div/div/text()="Main Lists"]//div[starts-with(@class, "sm-CouponLink_Label") and normalize-space()])[%s]' % str(index + 1))))
clickMe.click()

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