If you're using OBS Studio to display a website, YouTube page, dashboard, live poll, chat widget, or web application, you may notice something confusing:
The webpage appears perfectly inside OBS — but you can't click anything.
This is usually not a broken Browser Source.
The key is understanding how OBS handles browser interaction.
The Problem
A typical OBS Browser Source looks like this:
OBS Studio ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ WEB PAGE / YOUTUBE │ │ │ │ [ Button ] │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────────────┘
The page is rendered by OBS, but clicking directly on the OBS preview isn't how you interact with the webpage.
OBS's official documentation describes Browser Source as an embedded web browser that can display web pages, local files, widgets, alerts and other browser-based content.
The solution is Interact.
The Correct Way to Interact With a Browser Source
First select your Browser Source in the Sources panel.
Then either:
Method 1 — Interact button
Select the Browser Source and click:
