Yeah, that's annoying. Think I filed a Webdriver bug a one point (I wasn't the only one) but not sure if they ever did anything with it.
If you don't have to use Chrome, It might be worth trying Firefox. Driver install is not required for that and it's a little less fussy, although think I saw a similar scrolling problem with a recent version. You could also try send_keys to get the browser to scroll up or down conditionally, as needed (you may have to set the focus on a non-editable element before doing the send_keys so that they don't go to some element instead of the browser.) b.send_keys :space # Down one frame. b.send_keys :shift, :space # Up one frame. From: Awesome Possum <[email protected]> To: Watir General <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 7:16 PM Subject: [wtr-general] Watir-webdriver throws 'not clickable' error even when element is visible, present I am trying to automate tests in Ruby using the latest Watir-Webdriver 0.9.1, Selenium-Webdriver 2.53.0 and Chrome extension 2.21. However the website that I am testing has static headers at the top or sometimes static footers at the bottom. Hence since Watir auto-scrolls an element into view before clicking, the elements get hidden under the static header or the static footer. I do not want to set desired_capabitlites (ElementScrollBehavior) to 1 or 0 as the websites I am testing can have both - static header or static footer or both.Hence the question are 1) Why does Watir throw an exception 'Element not clickable' even when the element is visible and present? See ruby code ( I have picked a random company website for an example) and the results below.2) How can I resolve this without resorting to ElementScrollBehaviour? Ruby code: require 'watir-webdriver' browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome begin # Step 1 browser.goto "shop.coles.com.au/online/mobile/national" # Step 2 - click on 'Full Website' link at the bottom link = browser.link(text: "Full website") #check if link exists, present and visible? puts link.exists? puts link.present? puts link.visible? #click on link link.click rescue => e puts e.inspect ensure sleep 5 end puts browser.url browser.close Result: $ ruby link_not_clickable.rbtrue true trueSelenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: unknown error: Element is not clickable at point (460, 1295). Other element would receive the click: div class="shoppingFooter"...div(Session info: chrome=50.0.2661.75) (Driver info: chromedriver=2.21.371459 (36d3d07f660ff2bc1bf28a75d1cdabed0983e7c4),platform=Mac OS X 10.10.5 x86_64)>http://shop.coles.com.au/online/mobile/nationalthanks! -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
