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Use await page.mouse.click(x, y). The coordinates are CSS pixels measured from the top-left corner of the page viewport: x is horizontal and y is vertical. They are not desktop-screen coordinates or positions in the full document.
Click a point in the viewport
With an existing Puppeteer Page, call its mouse property and await the click:
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// `page` is an existing Puppeteer Page.
await page.mouse.click(250, 120);This targets a point 250 CSS pixels to the right and 120 CSS pixels below the viewport’s top-left corner. Use coordinates in that same frame when deriving a point from a screenshot or page layout. See the Puppeteer Mouse API reference.
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Control the click or mouse movement
mouse.click(x, y, options) is a shortcut for moving to the point, pressing the mouse button, and releasing it. For explicit control, call those operations separately:
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await page.mouse.move(250, 120);
await page.mouse.down();
await page.mouse.up();The default click button is left. The documented alternatives are right, middle, back, and forward:
await page.mouse.click(250, 120, { button: 'right' });To emit intermediate movement events on the way to a point, pass steps to mouse.move. Its documented default is one step:
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await page.mouse.move(250, 120, { steps: 5 });
await page.mouse.click(250, 120);A higher step count creates intermediate movement events; it does not establish that the movement is equivalent to a human moving a physical mouse.
Choose coordinates or a locator
| Approach | Best for | What it does |
|---|---|---|
page.mouse.click(x, y) |
A task where the point itself matters, or where you need mouse events without selecting an element first. | Clicks the specified viewport coordinate; you are responsible for choosing a point that still targets the intended content. |
page.locator(selector).click() |
A known element on a page whose layout may change. | The current Puppeteer guide says a locator checks viewport presence, waits for visibility and enabled state, and waits for a stable bounding box across consecutive animation frames. |
page.click(selector) |
Existing code using the older selector-based API. | Finds the selector, scrolls the element into view if needed, and clicks its center using Page.mouse. |
For a known button, for example, prefer the locator when you do not specifically need a coordinate:
await page.locator('button').click();See the Puppeteer page interactions guide for locator behavior and the Page.click API reference for the selector-based method.
Coordinate clicks are synthetic mouse events
Puppeteer documents its mouse events as synthetic MouseEvents; they do not fully reproduce everything a person can do with a physical mouse. In particular, the Mouse reference says page.mouse cannot drag or select text. For actual text selection, it points to the DOM Selection API. Do not assume a coordinate click is indistinguishable from physical user input.
Wait for navigation after a selector click
For the documented Page.click selector pattern, Puppeteer warns that waiting for navigation separately can race with the click. Start both together:
const [response] = await Promise.all([
page.waitForNavigation(),
page.click('a.some-link'),
]);This guidance is specifically for the selector-based Page.click pattern; it should not be generalized to every coordinate click.
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