I am still learning and in response to one of my questions: here, I was told to that it might be due because the element in question is not in view.
I looked through the documentation and SO, here was the most relevant answer: here
You can use the "org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions" class to move to an element:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("my-id"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element);
## actions.click();
actions.perform();
When I try to use the above to scroll to the element: It says WebElement not defined.
I think this is because I have not imported the relevant module. Can someone point out what I am supposed to import?
Edit: As pointed out by alecxe, this was java code.
But in the meantime right after trying to figure it out for some time. I have found out the import method for WebElement:
from selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement import WebElement
Might help someone like me.
The how of it is also a good lesson, IMO:
Went to: Documentation The
class selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement(parent, id_, w3c=False)
Need to be separated into the command form mentioned above.
You are trying to run Java code with Python. In Python/Selenium, the org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions are reflected in ActionChains class:
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
element = driver.find_element_by_id("my-id")
actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.move_to_element(element).perform()
Or, you can also "scroll into view" via scrollIntoView():
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", element)
If you are interested in the differences: