Not able to select the required radio button

Neha Bansal Posted on 04/04/2019

Code

import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class Radios {

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

driver.get("http://www.echoecho.com/htmlforms10.htm");
List<WebElement> radios = driver.findElements(By.name("group1"));
radios.get(0).click();

}

}

Console output

Starting ChromeDriver 73.0.3683.68 (47787ec04b6e38e22703e856e101e840b65afe72) on port 26040
Only local connections are allowed.
Please protect ports used by ChromeDriver and related test frameworks to prevent access by malicious code.
Apr 04, 2019 11:50:54 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Detected dialect: OSS
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Element <input type="radio" name="group1" value="Milk"> is not clickable at point (312, 549). Other element would receive the click: <html>...</html>
(Session info: chrome=73.0.3683.86)
(Driver info: chromedriver=73.0.3683.68 (47787ec04b6e38e22703e856e101e840b65afe72),platform=Mac OS X 10.14.4 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 0 milliseconds
Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:48'
System info: host: 'IDCMBP067.local', ip: 'fe80:0:0:0:400:ee1a:df10:cbd0%en0', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.14.4', java.version: '1.8.0_101'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
Capabilities {acceptInsecureCerts: false, acceptSslCerts: false, applicationCacheEnabled: false, browserConnectionEnabled: false, browserName: chrome, chrome: {chromedriverVersion: 73.0.3683.68 (47787ec04b6e3..., userDataDir: /var/folders/1l/6hjx1pyn591...}, cssSelectorsEnabled: true, databaseEnabled: false, goog:chromeOptions: {debuggerAddress: localhost:58666}, handlesAlerts: true, hasTouchScreen: false, javascriptEnabled: true, locationContextEnabled: true, mobileEmulationEnabled: false, nativeEvents: true, networkConnectionEnabled: false, pageLoadStrategy: normal, platform: MAC, platformName: MAC, proxy: Proxy(), rotatable: false, setWindowRect: true, strictFileInteractability: false, takesHeapSnapshot: true, takesScreenshot: true, timeouts: {implicit: 0, pageLoad: 300000, script: 30000}, unexpectedAlertBehaviour: ignore, unhandledPromptBehavior: ignore, version: 73.0.3683.86, webStorageEnabled: true}
Session ID: 6d97560025b3378e5ad2321300b11f5d
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:214)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:166)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.JsonHttpResponseCodec.reconstructValue(JsonHttpResponseCodec.java:40)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.AbstractHttpResponseCodec.decode(AbstractHttpResponseCodec.java:80)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.AbstractHttpResponseCodec.decode(AbstractHttpResponseCodec.java:44)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:158)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:83)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:552)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:285)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.click(RemoteWebElement.java:84)
at Radios.main(Radios.java:21)

Instructor

Ashish Thakur Replied on 09/04/2019

Hello Neha,

The code provided by you works fine

import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class Radios {
	public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
		WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
		driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
		driver.get("http://www.echoecho.com/htmlforms10.htm");
		List<WebElement> radios = driver.findElements(By.name("group1"));
		radios.get(0).click();
	}
}

All you need to make sure is that the element is visible on screen while you're trying to automate click action.

Avinash Vijaykumar Mahamuni Replied on 09/04/2019

Refer the following code and let me know if it is working.

driver.get("http://www.echoecho.com/htmlforms10.htm");

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;

js.executeScript("window.scrollBy(0,2000)");

List<WebElement> radios = driver.findElements(By.name("group1"));

radios.get(0).click();

Instructor

Ashish Thakur Replied on 10/04/2019

Please try the code provided by Avinash, this will surely work, if needed try changing the value from 2000 to lesser or higher value