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.

Can you add the surrounding HTML as well? Probably not the element but some other element receives the click event — Maximilian Peters, Sep 23 '20 at 07:50

undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2020-09-23T08:01:47.063

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

How to handle the a tag in selenium

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