[Solved] UI Button not working at all

[AAAAAAAAAE]

@AAAAAAAAAE

Same problem with buttons , it stopped responding.

It worked only after removing and then attaching the button component and image component.
Interestingly never had any issue with legacy GUI

[ayhaab-pasha]

I was having this problem. I was developing an AR shooting game. The problem was that the Event System Game Object was moved in to Target Builder UI Game Object. I placed it outside, like it was not a child of any thing. And so the buttons started to work. Don’t misplace Event System. Hope this helps.

[dillon_yeti]

I had a similar problem and thought I would share my solution.

I had a ‘root’ Canvas Game Object, which then had several child Canvas GameObjects.

In order for the Buttons to work, the Button’s direct parent Canvas must have Graphic Raycaster component. It’s not enough that the root Canvas has one.

Example:

Canvas1  // must have Graphic Raycaster for Button1 to work
  Button1
  SubCanvas1  // must have Graphic Raycaster for Button2 to work
    Button2
  SubCanvas2  // must have Graphic Raycaster for Button3 to work
    Button3

[Comafly]

@ayhaab-pasha

I was having this problem. I was developing an AR shooting game. The problem was that the Event System Game Object was moved in to Target Builder UI Game Object. I placed it outside, like it was not a child of any thing. And so the buttons started to work. Don’t misplace Event System. Hope this helps.

This solved it for me. Thanks! I was losing the ability to press buttons after changing scenes. It was because the event system was being destroyed when loading a new scene. DontDestroyOnLoad() solved that easy enough.

[R4y-GM]

the problem was on event system

[game_genie]

@Jace-Xanthos

spent a good 20 minutes running through all the possibilities just to find that i had a 1000 by 1000 clear text object on the top layer that was blocking my button

Life saver. reading yours made me realized i needed to give the canvas a higher sort order

[FMisi]

In my case, the problem was in the hierarchy view.
In the Canvas, I created a GameObject.
The GameObject had 2 Button objects, and 3 another objects.
The objects inside the GameObject were not in the appropriate order.
Changing the order as it is in the scene worked for me.

[IbraheemAli]

My hierarchy goes:

PanelMenu
ButtonMainMenu
ButtonRestart```

(I renamed the UI element to fit the project)

[eshwarerukulla1]

Under Canvas in ur button check for interactable in the components

[zhangvisual]

@Ayfri

Do you have your eventsystem, me I deleted it and that doesn’t work… I create a new eventsystem and now all work !

I did exactly the same thing because I was pretty new to Unity months ago. EventSystem is very necessary to get the UI elements work correctly in Unity.

[bordeianuadrian370]

UI elements under Canvas objects are rendered according to their hierarchy. Objects at the bottom will be rendered on top. So move your button to the bottom of the Canvas hierarchy, maybe something it is blocking it. Also move the Event System to the top of the hierarchy

[heglys]

@dididucdich

HI,

check your event system item in the editor hierarchy, inside some check boxes are disabled after duplicating an button (thats was the problem at my side).

OMG! You saved my life! I was almost exporting the whole project to a new one because suddenly buttons and scroll rects stop working and this answer was the best! I problably deleted it in some moment and I didn’t realize it.

[Argi203]

In my case i accidently deleted event system and then just forgot about it . After 4 hours i finally found what was cousing the error.

[TouchedMoon728]

@Ayfri

Do you have your eventsystem, me I deleted it and that doesn’t work… I create a new eventsystem and now all work !

I fucking love you

[marirenee123]

@Ayfri

Do you have your eventsystem, me I deleted it and that doesn’t work… I create a new eventsystem and now all work !

BLESS YOU!! I have been trying to figure out why my UI didn’t work for literally the last 2 days. You are a lifesaver!!!

[quares]

God swear I tried every f**king trick from the comments and nothing worked

[rmills1997]

@quares

God swear I tried every f**king trick from the comments and nothing worked

Same maybe its a problem with a new version of Unity… Some scenes my buttons work and others they dont at all SO FRUSTRATING

[ffxiangyu]

For my case just now, something (nearly) transparent is blocking the button.haha

[olegf2a]

@Ayfri

Do you have your eventsystem, me I deleted it and that doesn’t work… I create a new eventsystem and now all work !

Works as charm, just added and all work

[lizzl]

@takatok

What version of Unity, what OS are you building for? It often helps to narrow down the problem by stripping away everything then slowly adding things back. I would create a new empty test project. Add UI Button to the scene, it should automatically add a Canvas and an Event System. Then Create an Empty Game Object that is a root object in the hierarchy. Create a Script with one Public function called TestButton that just calls Debug.Log(“I’m pressed”). Attach it to your GameObject, then attach the Button’s OnClick to that Function in the editor. Play and press the button and see if you get the Debug Log in the console. I suspect you will.

I’d do all the above with the default settings Unity has for everything. Then change the settings to what your project has. Possibly adding more items and objects from your scene until it stops working.

Thanks a lot @[takatok]( https://discussions.unity.com/t/637700 members/takatok.1164327/) was struggling to get UI button working - no where i could find step by step for UI button. Was struggling the whole day to get button click working, your steps mentioned here helped me. Thanks