How I can avoid “Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with ” Selenium Webdriver

Question

Am using selenium webdriver 2.210 + JAVA for testing.I have a sample code for selecting all mails in gmail.But the code throws an \"Element is not currently visible and so m

Answer 1

Here is a summary of things you can do to tackle the problem (examples in Protractor/Javascript):

• maximize the browser window (on Chrome+Mac, currently you have to do it differently):

  browser.driver.manage().window().maximize();
  

• verify that there are no other elements matching the locator. You can get this error if there is an another element matching the locator that is actually invisible.

• wait for the element to be clickable:

  var EC = protractor.ExpectedConditions,
      elm = element(by.id("myid"));
  
  browser.wait(EC.elementToBeClickable(elm), 5000);
  

• scroll into view of the element:

  var elm = element(by.id("myid"));
  browser.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", elm);
  

• click via javascript:

  var elm = element(by.id("myid"));
  browser.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", elm);
  

• move to element and click via "browser actions":

  var elm = element(by.id("myid"));
  browser.actions()
      .mouseMove(elm)
      .click()
      .perform();