Address Underlying Issues
- Challenges with scrolling: In most cases, after the Selenium has scrolled to the element, still the element is not visible within the viewport. Thus the webdriver couldn’t perform any further action on that element, such as clicking, etc. Thus, we need to implement try-catch until the element is visible within the viewport and further actions can be performed on it.
- Dynamic Loading: In certain cases where the element appears at a certain time, the user doesn’t know how much time it will take the element to load, hence Selenium needs to find the element dynamically until the element is loaded. This affects the performance of the script execution.
- Appropriate element state: The user can face the challenges of performing actions on the element if the element is not in the appropriate state, i.e., disable or not clickable.
How to Force Selenium WebDriver to Click on Element which is Not Currently Visible?
A programming language that is used to execute a set of instructions that a computer can understand and execute to perform various tasks is known as Java. Java can be controlled autonomously using various automation tools.
Table of Content
- Visibility criteria
- Wait for Visibility
- Scroll the Element into View
- Address Underlying Issues
- Forceful Click using JavaScript
- Conclusion
- FAQs
Selenium is one such tool, that can make the work of developer and tester easier. There are various instances when the user needs to click or perform a certain action on the element that is currently not in the scope of visibility. In this article, we will see how we can forcefully click on an element that is not currently visible using Selenium webdriver.