[FIXED] Selenium ChromeDriver - Element is not clickable

Issue

The following site below recently updated their UI and my existing code no longer works for reasons I cannot figure out. My function (proline_go_to_match1) used to select and click on the game using the PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT where I passed the team name. The team name exists in the link however I am getting the error message pasted below. I have included my code snippet and would greatly appreciate if anyone knows why this happening and how to fix it.

Thank you very much!

Website: https://prolineplus.olg.ca/en-ca/event-path/?p23795-NBA

Error message:

"Message: element click intercepted: Element <a href="/en-ca/event/?e109531-NBA-Basketball-USA-Toronto-Raptors-Atlanta-Hawks">...</a> is not clickable at point (415, 697). Other element would receive the click: <div class="cc-content">...</div>"

Code:

def proline_go_to_match1(driver, team):
    try:
        match = WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(
            EC.presence_of_element_located((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, team))
        )
        match.click()
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)

proline_driver = webdriver.Chrome()
proline_driver.get('https://prolineplus.olg.ca/en-ca/event-path/?p23795-NBA')

capitalized_team = "TORONTO RAPTORS"
proline_go_to_match1(proline_driver,capitalized_team)

Here I have circled the link I would like click passing "TORONTO RAPTORS"

Solution

Seems you are close enough.

Instead of presence_of_element_located() you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following locator strategy:

• Using PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, f"{capitalized_team}"))).click()
  

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(., '" +capitalized_team+ "')]"))).click()
  

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Update

It's the cookie banner content which blocks your click

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Solution

You need to accept the cookies:

driver.get("https://prolineplus.olg.ca/en-ca/event-path/?p23795-NBA")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button.cc-btn.cc-dismiss"))).click()
capitalized_team = "TORONTO RAPTORS"
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, f"{capitalized_team}"))).click()

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Answered By - undetected Selenium