How to handle the a tag in selenium

Question

I am facing the problem for below tag in selenium

HTML Code is :

<a data-v-4sa1sads href='#' class='second'>Register</a>

I tried using LinkText, PartialLinkText, CSS selector, Xpath but it is always showing an error that element click is intercepted.

How to handle this.

Answer 1

To click on the element you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using java and linkText:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.linkText("Register"))).click();
  

• Using java and XPATH:

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//a[@class='second' and text()='Register']"))).click();
  

• Using python and LINK_TEXT:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Register"))).click()
  

• Using python and CSS_SELECTOR:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.second[href]"))).click()
  

• Note : For python clients 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
  

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References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions on ElementClickInterceptedException in:

• ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: element click intercepted Element is not clickable error clicking a radio button using Selenium and Python
• ElementClickInterceptedException: Message: element click intercepted: Element is not clickable with Selenium and Python