Question

I have here a challenge that I spent some time addressing.

Selenium tells me that it cannot click a link that is not visible, so that means I need to scroll my canvas? I am using ubuntu 10, firefox 3, selenium 0.1, ruby 1.9.2, and selenium-webdriver 2.5.0

My code is

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox;
driver.get login_url

wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 2)

wait.until {
    driver.find_element(:name => 'j_password')
}

driver.find_element(:name => 'j_username').send_keys(username)

driver.focus(:name => 'j_username')`

and it says that focus() is not defined. How should I modify my code to put the input element on screen?

Um, this is a hypothetical example, I really need to scroll so that some other element is on the screen, but for simplicity I would like to be able to scroll s.t. any element is on the screen, even

Answer 1

When the documentation says “not visible” it’s not refering the view port, but to the status of the element on the page. If something is hidden with CSS it cannot be clicked.