Normally, you’d do the following to click a button with Python Selenium:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('https://myurl.com')
element = driver.find_element_by_id('mybutton');
element.click();

But what if you’re on a virtual browser like BrowserStack? How would you find and click the element now that commands like find_element_by_id no longer work?

The trick is to make WebDriver perform a click action at a specific set of coordinates:

element = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body')
action = webdriver.common.action_chains.ActionChains(driver)
action.move_to_element_with_offset(element, xoffset, yoffset)
action.click()
action.perform()

The question now is how do you figure out what the X and Y offsets are?

You can go to the url on another browser with the same window dimensions and use getBoundingClientRect in the Chrome or Firefox Console:

var element = driver.getElementById('mybutton');
console.log(element.getBoundingClientRect());

Since the properties are relative to the top-left of the viewport, we can use left and top.

When testing your Selenium script, use context_click instead of click to display the right click menu on desktop browsers. Then adjust the X and Y offsets as you see fit. That’s all!

The full script:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('https://virtual-myurl.com')
element = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body')
action = webdriver.common.action_chains.ActionChains(driver)
action.move_to_element_with_offset(element, 150, 250)
action.click()
action.perform()