How to know if a click sent through Selenium python did not work

Question

I would like to catch a error every time I click an icon or an element that is not active.

Answer 1

try:
    element.click()
except:
    print("error")

Answer 2

try:
    element.click()
except Exception as e:
        print(e)

you can print the exception thrown like this

Answer 3

Selenium won't be able to differentiate between active and inactive state of an element. But Selenium can distinguish the different states of a WebElement interms of:

• presence
• visible
• interactable

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This usecase

In short click() can fail majorly because of either:

• NoSuchElementException
• ElementClickInterceptedException

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Solution

You can catch NoSuchElementException using the following code block:

try:
    driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.class#id[attribute='value']").click()
except NoSuchElementException:
    print("No such element")
    

You can avoid ElementClickInterceptedException inducing WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() as follows:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "element_css"))).click()