My element.click() is not working on Puppeteer!

17 Nov, 2021

I came across this issue recently and just wanted to share my solutions (yes, more than one).

The page's zoom

For some reason I changed the default zoom, over 100% and below 100% too, but I didn't realize I did that. The simplest solution here was just to return the zoom to 100%.

await element.evaluate(e => e.click())

For some reason the method await element.click() doesn't work when the page's zoom is not 100%. Because of that I had to use the second method of clicking a button, which I don't find very reliable.

await element.evaluate(e => e.click())

Oh, I connected to chrome using puppeteer.connect instead of puppeteer.launch.

dptoledo@pm.me

#click #evaluate #puppeteer #zoom