Selenium webdriver can't click on a link outside the page

Question

I am having an issue with Selenium WebDriver. I try to click on a link that is outside the window page (you\'d need to scroll up to see it). My current code is fairly standa

Answer 1

Instead of move the scrollbar to the button position, which sometimes it didn't work for me, I send the enter key to the button

var element = driver.FindElement(By.Id("button"));
element.SendKeys(Keys.Enter);

Answer 2

This solution worked like a charm for me:

public void click(By by) throws Exception{
    WebElement element = driver.findElement(by);
    ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element);
    Thread.sleep(500);
    element.click();
}

Answer 3

I used the method below to solve a similar issue for Selenium Java:

public static void scrollToElementByElement(WebElement element) {

    Coordinates coordinates = ((Locatable)element).getCoordinates();
    coordinates.inViewPort();
    coordinates.click(); //if needed

}

Then called on the method on my main test class

Answer 4

This works for me (in c#)-

item = driver.findelement(by.....);
item.SendKeys(Keys.LeftControl);
item.Click();

Answer 5

Just an addition: In my case the button was overlapped by another floating button.

Just resizing the browser window solved the problem!

Answer 6

I ran into a similar problem recently when there was a list of selectable objects in a JS dialog. Sometimes selenium would not select the correct object in the list. So i found this javascript suggestion:

WebElement target = driver.findElement(By.id("myId"));
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", target);
Thread.sleep(500); //not sure why the sleep was needed, but it was needed or it wouldnt work :(
target.click();

That solved my issue