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Selenium Cannot Click Elements in Dynamically Rendered Menus

Developers automating web interactions with Selenium cannot reliably click elements inside dropdown menus that appear after a button click. The stale element reference and timing issues between click events and DOM updates cause the automation script to fail. This blocks price scraping and similar automation workflows.

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