Watir-webdriver: Script working on Firefox but failing on Chrome or Opera. why?

Question

I'm testing this on ark.com..

the following code works perfectly for firefox with watir-webdriver but gives me an error for google chrome and opera browsers respectively.

heres the code:

require "rubygems"
require "watir-webdriver"

b = Watir::Browser.new :ff
b.goto "http://www.ark.com"

# Signing in
7.times{b.link(:text, "Sign in").flash}
sleep 3
b.link(:text, "Sign in").click
sleep 3
# Popup
b.text_field(:name, "login_email").set "[email protected]"
b.send_keys :tab
b.text_field(:name, "login_password").set "password"
b.button(:value, "Sign in").click
puts b.title

changing the code as follows gives me errors:

b = Watir::Browser.new :chrome

or

b = Watir::Browser.new :opera

I get the following error message:

You may only interact with visible elements (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::ElementNotVisibleError)

I've tried the following stack overflow suggestion to no avail How do I use Watir::Waiter::wait_until to force Chrome to wait?

Also, my code works perfectly in firefox but not in other browsers, why might this be the case? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

What element is it saying isn't visible? Also do you get different errors when you try the .when_present etc. methods that you found in the other Stackoverflow question? — anonygoose

Justin Ko Justin Ko · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-30T14:17:30

As mentioned in some other posts, you can full screen the browser with the following:

screen_width = b.execute_script("return screen.width;")
screen_height = b.execute_script("return screen.height;")
b.driver.manage.window.resize_to(screen_width,screen_height)
b.driver.manage.window.move_to(0,0)

Then like anonygoose said, the sign in link should be there (assuming your screen isn't too small).

Watir-webdriver: Script working on Firefox but failing on Chrome or Opera. why?

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