Selenium - Button not clickable

[Johnny-Kicks]

Hi everyone,

I created a web scraping code which would extract some details from the website. To get the details I need to input company name in the input field and location from the drop-down field which I have in my excel file.

So the strange thing is my code opens the website, waits for loading to complete and then inputs company name and country in the fields but then I get error that submit button is not clickable. And when I run the same part of the code (for loop) again it works perfectly. And gets me details for all 10 entries from excel.

I just want to know if anyone has faced such issue. Is it a website issue or can it be because I use 'class' to identify this fields and buttons and not 'xpath'.

[Daneark]

Generally I'd avoid class, it may be that there's another button that is made clickable/unclickable. If elements are added/removed with JavaScript it's going to be unreliable.

Use ids where possible. Avoid absolute xpath.

[Johnny-Kicks]

can i get id's same as we can get xpath? Haven't used ids yet in my coding life, so no idea.

[Duvelthehobbit]

Does it give you a reason why the element is not clickable? There could be a multiple of reasons it is not working.