The element is obscured(Server did not provide stack information) automation in edge browser with selenium - selenium

Question

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Element is obscured (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information).
This code is working fine for chrome and firefox but not with edge browser.
`public class Login {
public WebDriver driver;
By userName = By.id("ctl14_UserName");
By password = By.id("ctl14_Password");
By login = By.id("ctl14_LoginButton");
public Login(WebDriver driver) {
this.driver = driver;
}
// Set password in username textbox
public void setUserName(String strUserName) {
driver.findElement(userName).sendKeys(strUserName);
}
// Set password in password textbox
public void setPassword(String strPassword) {
driver.findElement(password).sendKeys(strPassword);
}
public void clickMyaccount(){
driver.findElement(myAccount).click();
}
// Click on login button
public void clickLogin() {
driver.findElement(login).click();
}
}
//Test class
public class AdminLogin extends BaseForDifferentLogins {
Login objLoginAdmin;
#Test(priority=0)
public void login() throws InterruptedException{
objLoginAdmin=new Login(driver);
objLoginAdmin.clickMyaccount();
Thread.sleep(3000);
objLoginAdmin.setUserName("superuser1");
objLoginAdmin.setPassword("superuser1");
Thread.sleep(3000);
objLoginAdmin.clickLogin();
Thread.sleep(3000);
}
}`

Answer 1

Instead of using webElement.click() you can try to build Actions with click and do perform. Had the same issue on Edge and that did the trick for me:
Actions actions = new Actions(webDriver);
actions.click(webElement).perform();

Answer 2

I have encountered the issue and tried several things to solve it:
enabled EdgePageLoadStrategy.Normal - did not help;
disabled the "save your password?" bubble. - did not help;
normalized the zoom level to 100% - bingo / eureka. This solved the issue.
My test script is a bit more performance-oriented, so I had no desire to add additional objects / capabilties / options. If you want your test to be more deployable add registry editing capabilities to your selenium script. This can be a starter: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/microsoft-edge-disable-zoom-reset-zoom-level-every-start/

Answer 3

I encountered the same issue on the Edge browser.
It was difficult to figure out what was actually wrong, since the issue seemed to appear/disappear from time to time in my case.
So at some point I decided to contact MS and created this ticket question
Here Steven K mentioned that the obscured element error is most likely due to zoom level not being at 100% So I checked and indeed it was at 125% for some reason.
After I set it back to 100% the issue was resolved for me.
browser.send_keys [:control, '0']
I know this is a ruby+watir example, but I'm sure there is a similar Java trick for this.

Answer 4

I have also encountered this problem while testing Angular with Protractor in Microsoft Edge.
What finally helped me was combining two workarounds:
Set browser zoom value to 100% explicitly in beforeEach function:
browser.actions().keyDown(protractor.Key.CONTROL).sendKeys('0')
.keyUp(protractor.Key.CONTROL).perform();
Do click through browser actions:
browser.actions().mouseMove(yourElementThatIsNotActuallyObscured).click().perform();

Answer 5

Resetting Zoom level to 100% will fix the issue.

Answer 6

public void clickUntillNotObsecured(WebElement elementToClick) {
boolean obsecuredThrown = true;
int c=0;
while (obsecuredThrown && c<30) {
try {
clickOnElement(elementToClick);
obsecuredThrown = false;
} catch (WebDriverException e) {
obsecuredThrown = true;
}
c++;
}
}

Answer 7

You can perform the task with the Action chains in the python specially with Edge browser:
from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
actionChains = ActionChains(driver)
button_xpath = '//xapth...'
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath(button_xpath)
actionChains.move_to_element(button).click().perform()
But sometimes Action chain does not finds the DOM element. Hence better option to use execute_script in following way which is compatible with all browsers:
button_xpath = '//xapth...'
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath(button_xpath)
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", button)

Answer 8

Even I faced same problem today running tests on Edge, But when I observed the problem, after which step it's failing just check it up, after that step give a time delay of 5 to 10 seconds, by doing this it solved my problem. And i got the same error many times while running in Edge at different part of my program, i just added time delay at all those steps, it solved my problem and now test successfully running on EDGE.
I added delay by using
Thread.sleep(5000);
just try this, if it doesn't work for you, I found one other solution if it's failing at the time of clicking, that is perform click operation using javascript.
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfd"));
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);
This solution I got from
https://softwaretestingboard.com/qna/363/word-around-for-edge-driver-click
https://softwaretestingboard.com/qna/745/excpetion-selenium-webdriverexception-element-obscured
First one worked for me.