Debugging “Element is not clickable at point” error

Question

I see this only in Chrome.

The full error message reads:

\"org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable at point (411, 675

Answer 1

I was getting this error when running tests headless with xvfb-run. They were working flawlessly locally. Using chrome, versions of webdriver / chromedriver / chrome / java etc all identical.

The ‘won’t fix’ bug in chromedriver - GitHub Link pointed out by Tony Lâmpada suggested this may be related to what is / isn't visible on the screen.

Help message for xvfb-run shows the following:

-s ARGS   --server-args=ARGS    arguments (other than server number and
                                "-nolisten tcp") to pass to the Xvfb server
                                (default: "-screen 0 640x480x8")

Changing the resolution for xvfb made the error go away:

xvfb-run -s "-screen 0 1280x1024x16" ...