I am trying to automate an online survey on a website but I get this error each time:
Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: unknown error: Element is not clickable at
point (561, 864). Other element would receive the click: a id="habla_oplink_a"
class="habla_oplink_a_normal hbl_pal_header_font_size hbl_pal_title_fg "
What I need to understand is how I can scroll to a certain point of the page so that my script can resume filling out the survey on the page.
This is my code that manages to fill out a portion of the survey but fails when it reaches a row which is not in view inside the browser (a row that requires the user to scroll down to):
buttons = browser.elements(:class => "assessment-choice")
buttons.each do |button|
button.click
end
I would also like to be able to change my code so that it only selects a specific option but the HTML on the page is not very friendly.
This is the webpage I am looking at: https://staging2.clearfit.com/assessment/assessment/95867fb272df436352a0bd5fbdd
The HTML of one of the options on the survey:
<a id="answers_79_0" class="assessment-choice" onmouseover="answerOver(this)" onmouseout="answerOut(this)" onclick="setAssessmentAnswer(this, 3, '0', '79', '#answers_49839163')">Strongly<br>Agree</a>
Using execute_script
To scroll to an element, you will need to execute javascript:
browser.execute_script('arguments[0].scrollIntoView();', button)
This can be seen to be working in the following script. Without the line to scroll, a chat tab overlays one of the buttons causing an exception.
require 'watir-webdriver'
browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome
browser.goto 'https://staging2.clearfit.com/assessment/assessment/95867fb272df436352a0bd5fbdd'
buttons = browser.elements(:class => "assessment-choice")
buttons.each do |button|
browser.execute_script('arguments[0].scrollIntoView();', button)
button.click
end
Using the watir-scroll gem
Note that you can install the watir-scroll gem to make the scrolling line nicer. The gem allows the line to simply be:
browser.scroll.to button
The script would then look like:
require 'watir-webdriver'
require 'watir-scroll'
browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome
browser.goto 'https://staging2.clearfit.com/assessment/assessment/95867fb272df436352a0bd5fbdd'
buttons = browser.elements(:class => "assessment-choice")
buttons.each do |button|
browser.scroll.to button
button.click
end