Unable to click on <area> element containing href property

[agravka]

Hi,

I'm using geckodriver 0.28.0.
I got this element on my site:

<area alt="Fish" coords="2,180,72,250" href="Catalog.action?viewCategory=&amp;categoryId=FISH" shape="RECT">

When I do:

@FindBy(css = "area[alt='Fish']")
private WebElement btnFishImage;

WebDriverWait webDriverWait = getWebDriverWait();
webDriverWait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(btnFishImage));
btnFishImage.click();

I get error:
org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotInteractableException: Element <area href="Catalog.action?viewCategory=&categoryId=FISH"> could not be scrolled into view

But when I replace click(); to sendKeys(Keys.ENTER); it works ok.

Please help.

Best regards
Marta Mazurkiewicz

[whimboo]

Could you please attach a trace-level log from geckodriver? Read more about reporting actionable bugs in our contribution guidelines. Also a HTML sample snippet would be nice to have, given that you didn't say anything about the surrounding HTML.

[whimboo]

Actually there is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502636 for that. Also see w3c/webdriver#1411 for a missing spec behavior.