How to properly wait until page loads before click() using Selenium Webdriver?

Question

driver.find_element_by_id("ch4_loginGuestBtn").click()

This command intermittently fails with:

"Element is not clickable"

I'm guessing I need to do something like the following.

    guestlogin_button = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.id, ".ch4_loginGuestBtn")))
    actions = ActionChains(driver)
    actions.move_to_element(guestlogin_button).click().perform()

This is however failing with:

AttributeError: type object 'By' has no attribute 'id'

What am I doing wrong, how do I fix the wait.until line?

I changed id to Id, still same issue. The post you linked does not seem to be helping. — david, May 17 '16 at 20:54
Other items in `By` use uppercase (`By.CSS_SELECTOR`, `By.XPATH`), so I would try `By.ID`. — John Gordon, May 17 '16 at 21:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '16 at 03:28

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You probably need to change

guestlogin_button = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.id, ".ch4_loginGuestBtn")))

to

guestlogin_button = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, ".ch4_loginGuestBtn")))

answered May 18 '16 at 03:28

Naman

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 23 '18 at 13:04

int count=0;
while (count < 4) {
    try {
        Webdriverwait wait = new Webdriverwait(driver,10);
        WebElement p = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xapth("")));
        driver.findelement(by.xapth("")).click
     } 
     catch (Exception e) 
     {
         System.out.println("Trying to recover from a exception :-");
         count = count + 1;
         continue;
     } 

     count = count + 4;
}

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 18 '16 at 16:04

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bad code but works:

i=0
while i<1:
   try:
      driver.find_element_by_id("ch4_loginGuestBtn").click()
      i==1
   except:

time.sleep(1) i==0

answered May 18 '16 at 16:04

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How to properly wait until page loads before click() using Selenium Webdriver?

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