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

If you application uses jQuery, you may do the clicks using Javascript. I created this simple helper for clicking elements that WebDriver refuses to find:

public static void jqClick(String selector, JavascriptExecutor driver) {
    driver.executeScript("$('" + selector + "').click()");
}

As the "driver", you can use, for instance a org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.

This was the only solution that worked for me.