Selenium web driver: cannot be scrolled into view

Question

I am using Selenium IDE and Selenium web driver testng in eclipse .. my testing is against ZK application ..

the test case works fine on Selenium IDE ..

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head profile="http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/profiles/test-case">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="selenium.base" href="http://*****/>
<title>work it2</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">work it2</td></tr>
</thead><tbody>
<tr>
    <td>open</td>
    <td>/xxx</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>//li[2]/div/div/div/span</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>pause</td>
    <td>3000</td>
    <td>3000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>doubleClick</td>
    <td>//div[2]/div[2]</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>pause</td>
    <td>3000</td>
    <td>3000</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

but when I run it in eclipse with selenium web driver (testng) I got an error ..

    selenium.open("xxx");
selenium.click("//li[2]/div/div/div/span");
Thread.sleep(3000);
selenium.doubleClick("//div[2]/div[2]");
Thread.sleep(3000);

I also changed the code to

 driver.get("xxx");

        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[2]/div/div/div/span")).click();
        Thread.sleep(3000);
        WebElement ee = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[2]/div[2]"));
        Actions action = new Actions(driver);
        action.doubleClick(ee).perform();
        Thread.sleep(3000);

also getting the same error ...

the error was in this line

//div[2]/div[2]

com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleniumException: Offset within element cannot be scrolled into view: (87, 118): [object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDivElement]] Command duration or timeout: 63 milliseconds Build info: version: '2.39.0', revision: 'ff23eac', time: '2013-12-16 16:11:15' System info: host: 'EnD', ip: '192.168.17.76', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_51' Session ID: 3b79783c-2558-4c87-bd51-a72821696040 Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver Capabilities [{platform=XP, acceptSslCerts=true, javascriptEnabled=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true, databaseEnabled=true, browserName=firefox, handlesAlerts=true, browserConnectionEnabled=true, webStorageEnabled=true, nativeEvents=false, rotatable=false, locationContextEnabled=true, applicationCacheEnabled=true, takesScreenshot=true, version=27.0.1}]

the error appear on this line in eclipse selenium.doubleClick("//div[2]/div[2]"); — Naif
The doubleClick xpath in your IDE example is different from the WebDriver code. Is this on purpose? — Yoshi
That type of error may occur because the element you are trying to click is not visible. However, that is a guess. It is hard to help without the same problem occuring on our computers. Can you create an example page on jsfiddle.net that has the same issue? Often, making a simple test case helps you find out the problem on your own. — Yoshi

Alpha Alpha · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-24T07:29:10

Naif,

Actually, your above question is different than the actual question hence you should have asked it as a separate question. Still, I'm answering to your previous question.

The error is because the element you're trying to click on isn't visible. Before you click on element, it should be visible. You can do this by following -

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[2]/div[2]"));
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20); //here, wait time is 20 seconds

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(element)); //this will wait for elememt to be visible for 20 seconds
element.click(); //now it clicks on element

If above doesn't work, you can click on element by executing javascript(but this isn't a good practice)

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
js.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

Selenium web driver: cannot be scrolled into view

the error was in this line

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