ElementNotInteractableException: Message: Element could not be scrolled into view while trying to click an element using Selenium and Python

Question

I have this code:

driver.switch_to.window(window_after)

try:
    myElem = WebDriverWait(driver, delay).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, \'_eventId         


        

Answer 1

This problem usually arises when the element you are trying to click is present on the page but it is not fully visible and the point where selenium tries to click is not visible.
In this case, you can use javascript to click on the element, which actually operates directly on the html structure of the page.
You can use it like:

element = driver.find_element_by_name("_eventId_confirmed")
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", element)

Answer 2

Here are the 2 options.

Using selenium location_once_scrolled_into_view method:

btn.location_once_scrolled_into_view

Using Javascript:

driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();",btn)

Sample Code:

url = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55228646/python-selenium-cant-sometimes-scroll-element-into-view/55228932?    noredirect=1#comment97192621_55228932"
driver.get(url)
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[.='Contact Us']")
element.location_once_scrolled_into_view
time.sleep(1)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//p[.='active']").location_once_scrolled_into_view
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();",element)

Answer 3

As your final step is to invoke click() on the desired element, so instead of using the expected_conditions as presence_of_element_located() you need to use element_to_be_clickable() as follows:

try:
    myElem = WebDriverWait(driver, delay).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME, '_eventId_confirmed')))