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unable to click on webelement with selenium ActionsChain or javascript click as it refreshes the page and gives StaleElementReferenceError

I’m trying to close a cookie consent pop-up on a site https://www.meinschiff.com/. I used selenium webdriver for chrome to find the close and accept div element and click on whichever is found first. If I manually choose deny button, then it is closed but it hangs with a loading of another layer. The element’s parent’s parent div element with id="blur" acts as an ever loading overlay. The code fetches the accept button first and clicks on it but it refreshes the page giving StaleElementReference error. The clicks work perfectly when I open the site in a normal chrome browser.
I want to click accept button and close the pop up.

My code:

          div_elements = WebDriverWait(driver, 
         5).until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.TAG_NAME, "div")))
     for div_element in div_elements:
        try:
            element_html = div_element.get_attribute("outerHTML")
            div_element_attrs = BeautifulSoup(element_html, "lxml").div.attrs
            # class_attr = div_element.get_attribute('class')
            # title_attr = div_element.get_attribute('title')
            value_attr = div_element.get_attribute('value')
            popup_div = False
            for key in div_element_attrs.keys():
                if any(keyword in (div_element.get_attribute(key) or '').lower() 
                     for keyword in close_keywords) or 
                    (value_attr is not None and value_attr.lower() == 'false'):
                    print("closing div pop-up...")
                    popup_div = True
                    break
                else:
                    if any(keyword in (div_element.get_attribute(key) or 
                        '').lower() for keyword in accept_keywords) or 
                        (value_attr is not None and value_attr.lower() == 'false'):
                        print("accepting div pop-up...")
                        popup_div = True
                        break
            if popup_div: 
                ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(div_element).click().perform()
                time.sleep(2)
                if div_element.is_displayed():
                    print("div element not closed")
                    return False
                else:
                    print("div element closed")
                    return True
        except ElementClickInterceptedException:
             print(f"Div Element click intercepted: 
             {div_element.get_attribute('outerHTML')}")
            continue
        except Exception as e:
             print(f"Error processing div element: {e}")
            continue

I have also tried javascript click with:

driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", div_element)
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", div_element)

and wait for element to be clickable and it results in same behavior:

 clickable_element = WebDriverWait(driver, 
           10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(div_element)) 
      ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(clickable_element).click().perform()
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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    Solution: I have set allow cookies to True in the selenium chrome options prefs settings and now the button is clickable and closes the popup. I'm still getting StaleElementReferenceError because the page gets refreshed and found element is erased from the driver.

     chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", {
        "profile.default_content_setting_values.cookies": 1})

  2. 0

    I don’t know if i have truly understand your post but like @browsermator say’s, it seem’s to be a timing issue.

    You can use Implicit Waits : Selenium-python Documentation

    5.2. Implicit Waits An implicit wait tells WebDriver to poll the DOM for a certain amount of time when trying to find any element (or
    elements) not immediately available. The default setting is 0 (zero).
    Once set, the implicit wait is set for the life of the WebDriver
    object.

    from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.implicitly_wait(10) # seconds
driver.get("http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading")
myDynamicElement = driver.find_element_by_id("myDynamicElement")

    The script below launch the driver, set an implicit waits of 10 seconds, go to meinschiff webpage , deny cookie and print the slogan of meinschiff :

    from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

# Create a new instance of the Chrome driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.implicitly_wait(10) 

# Open the website
driver.get('https://www.meinschiff.com/')

try:
    # Close and refuse cookies
    driver.find_element(By.ID, "privacy_pref_optout").click()
    
    # Print the slogan in the webpage 
    slogan = driver.find_element(By.ID, "html")
    print(slogan.text)
    
except Exception as e:
    print(e)

    I hope it will help you. Feel free to tell us if your issu is solved.

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