Deepak -- I tried your suggestion when running into the same problem. I only had the issue in Firefox and not IE, so I tried in firefox and it now worked correctly, but broke IE "undefined method 'value' for :click:Symbol"
On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 9:14:11 AM UTC-5, Deepak Subudhi wrote: > > please use @browser.element.fire_event :click > > On Tuesday, 19 April 2016 16:38:52 UTC+5:30, Awesome Possum wrote: >> >> 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.inspectensure >> sleep 5end >> >> puts browser.url >> browser.close >> >> Result: >> >> $ ruby link_not_clickable.rb >> >> true >> >> true >> >> true >> >> Selenium::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/national >> >> thanks! >> >> -- -- 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.
