[FIXED] Selenium click action not doing anything - just opens browser

Issue

The code in this post only seems to open up the browser and do nothing else. I would like to use the move_to_location action. Currently I am just trying to see if it works so I am attempting to open a website that allows you to paint, going to a random spot and clicking to create a dot.

Why is the code below not doing what I described above? It just opens the browser at the link provided.

    from selenium import webdriver
    driver = webdriver.Chrome()
    driver.get("https://kleki.com/")
    action = webdriver.common.action_chains.ActionChains(driver)
    action.pointer_action.move_to_location(50, 50).perform()
    action.click().perform()

Solution

I run your code and I got the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\0.py", line 6, in <module>
    action.pointer_action.move_to_location(50, 50).perform()
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'ActionChains' object has no attribute 'pointer_action'

The ActionChains class in Selenium does not have a direct method named pointer_action.You should use the move_by_offset method from the ActionChains class.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
from time import sleep

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://kleki.com/")

# wait for the page to load
driver.implicitly_wait(10)

# 1 second wait
sleep(1)

action = ActionChains(driver)

# move to a position relative to the current mouse position and click
action.move_by_offset(100, 150).click().perform()

# sleep to see if the mouse clicked
sleep(5)

Note: you need to calculate the current position of the mouse and then provide the offset accordingly.

Answered By - Obaskly