Selenium webdriver click vs action.click whats the difference?

Question

I was struggling with a popup dialog in a website I\'m automating, for some reason it wouldn\'t click a button in the dialog but interacted fine with everything else fine.

Answer 1

Just testing similar scenario.

First with Actions click:

actions.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='relevantJobsAndCareerUpdates_1']"))).click().perform()

And second one with WebElement click:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='relevantJobsAndCareerUpdates_1']"))).click()

The second one does not work. It gives the error message:

Root cause: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Element  is not clickable at point (307, 24). Other element would receive the click: ...

This is the similar problem as previous. Using Actions solve this problem.