Selenium python Error: element could not be scrolled into view

This error message…

selenium.common.exceptions.ElementNotInteractableException: Message: Element <span class="ui-button-text"> could not be scrolled into view

…implies that the WebDriver instance i.e. driver was unable to scroll the element within the Viewport to invoke click().

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First of all, as your usecase is to invoke click() on the element, ideally instead of using presence_of_element_located() you need to use the ExpectedConditions as element_to_be_clickable() as follows:

WebDriverWait(driver, 1000000).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[5]/div[3]/div/button/span'))).click()

You can find a couple of detailed discussions in:

• Message: Element could not be scrolled into view while trying to click on an option within a dropdown menu through Selenium
• org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotInteractableException: Element could not be scrolled into view when trying to click a button

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As an alternative, as per the error message, to scroll an element within the Viewport before invoking click() you can also use the Element.scrollIntoView() method.

You can find a detailed discussion in:
– What is the difference between the different scroll options?

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At this point it is worth to mention, the following methods:

• move_to_element() from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains
• element_to_be_clickable() from selenium.webdriver.support.expected_conditions

will automatically scroll the element within the Viewport.

You can find a detailed discussion in:
– How to scroll a webpage using selenium webdriver in Python without using javascript method execute_script()

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This usecase

The button with text as Continue is within the Top Level Content but rendered within a Modal Dialog Box.

DevTools Snapshot:

As the desired element is within a Modal Dialog Box, so to locate and invoke click() on the element you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following Locator Strategy:

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//div[starts-with(@aria-describedby, 'ui-id-')]//span[@class="ui-button-text" and text()='Continue']"))).click()
  

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  

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