Catch "click not possible"

[johny322]

Hi.
Is it possible to catch "click not possible, out of viewport" when using the move_to_element action?
Action move_to_element_outside_viewport does not work for me, because the element with scrolling is inside another webelement.

[droefs]

Is it possible to catch "click not possible, out of viewport" when using the move_to_element action?

Yes, this should do it:

    from HLISA.errors import OutOfViewportException
    from HLISA.hlisa_action_chains import HLISA_ActionChains
    actions = HLISA_ActionChains(driver)
    try:
        actions.move_to_element(element).click().perform()
    except OutOfViewportException:
        print("catching click not possible, out of viewport")

Action move_to_element_outside_viewport does not work for me, because the element with scrolling is inside another webelement.

This is interesting. Do I understand correctly that there is an element in the viewport, which you need to scroll in, and only after scrolling this element, the element you want to click on shows up?

[johny322]

Thank you for your answer.

This is interesting. Do I understand correctly that there is an element in the viewport, which you need to scroll in, and only after scrolling this element, the element you want to click on shows up?
Yes, it is.

[droefs]

Due to time constraints I will for now not make a function that performs exactly the task you want to do. But I added the possibility to specify an element in the scroll_by(), which makes it possible to scroll human like in an element.

You can use actions.move_to_element_outside_viewport(element_to_scroll_in) to scroll to the element you need to scroll in, and then use actions.scroll_by(0, y, True, element_to_scroll_in) to scroll in that element with y pixels. This makes it possible to perform your task in a human like manner, but y still needs to be calculated manually and hardcoded.

Example:

driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15182496/why-does-this-code-using-random-strings-print-hello-world?noredirect=1&lq=1")
time.sleep(5)
element_to_scroll_in = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[3]/div[2]/div/div[1]/div[3]/div[3]/div[5]/div/div[2]/div[1]/pre[1]")
actions.move_to_element_outside_viewport(element_to_scroll_in)
actions.scroll_by(0, 300, element=element_to_scroll_in)
actions.perform()