Selenium/WebDriver Issue: Seleniums click() method not working sometimes

[helkv]

In the Selenium tests the clicking on an element, using Seleniums WebElement.click() method, is sometimes not working.

It seems to be a general Selenium Problem, see: SeleniumHQ/selenium#4075

Characteristics:

• The WebElement seems to be clicked from Seleniums point of view.
  -- No Error is thrown
  -- On screenshots the button / link is highlighted (it seems to be clicked)
• The Browser does not recognize the click
  -- The Actions the click should perform does not get performed
• The failure occurs from time to time
  -- In some cases it occurs on Jenkins but not locally
  -- In some cases it occurs only every hundredth time

Workaround:

• Using the JavascriptExecutor to click on the element seems to solve the problem in all cases so far:
  ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click();", button);

[vinaybond]

I tried the solution to click using JS but that does not work either. Looks like this is not a problem of selenium but with the browser. It does not finish JS event/function binding with objects. In such case even if you try to click manually, it won't work (though, clicking at a precise moment is very hard for human).