page.click not working

Steps to reproduce

Tell us about your environment:

• Puppeteer version: 1.17.0
• Platform / OS version: Ubuntu 18.04
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• Node.js version: v11.10.0

wait page.click(‘#link’) works most of the time. But for some mysterious reason, sometimes it is not. The worst is that the program is doing exactly the same, but just on a different page with the exactly same layout.

But await page.$eval(‘#link’, elem => elem.click()); works really well.

  await page.hover('#link');
  page.click(''#link'); // --> not always working
  page.$eval('#link', elem => elem.click()); // --> always works

What is the expected result? page.click(''#link') and page.$eval('#link', elem => elem.click()) should work the same way.

It is hard for me to give you a code reproducing the issue because it is happening on an online web service needing credentials to log in.

[vigneshveeran-ad]

I am facing the same issue 😦 dont understand why. i had to use waitforSelector with a click after. page.$eval(cssQuery('action', 'someting'), el => el.click());

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