Watir can't click on an element but can on irb

Question

I have this command:

@browser.element(:xpath => "/html/body/app/pages/div/div/div/div[3]/mi-perfil/div/div[3]/datos-personales/div/div[1]/span[2]").click

There is no problem with the direction of the Xpath, thats why i don't add the HTML code which is gigantic.

The Problem

When i run a scenario that run this command, I get :

unknown error: Element ... is not clickable at point (431, 8). Other element would receive the click: ...

BUT when i get into the IRB running each command, the click is done without problem.

I'm doing a click there because that span contains a button, like this:

<span> 
<button class="btn btn-blue btn-less-rounded btn-s" type="button">Guardar</button> 
</span>

*If I add /button to the Xpath i get the same Error

*If I use .exists? gives =>true

*If I use .visible? gives =>true

*If I use .text gives =>Guardar

Answer 1

Finally I managed to click on it. What happened is that the button wasn't directly visible when it did the click so the error pop up. And with watir alone was extremely dificult but I manage to scroll easier with

gem install watir-scroll

Then you add to the step file:

require 'watir-scroll'

And in the code before the click I put this:

@browser.element(blabla).scroll.to :center

With this i make sure the button is in the visible part of the Browser.

Thanks for the hints ;)

Answer 2

Things I would try:

• Try using find first to see if it scroll the item into view

• Try using waits to see if it is a timing issue (start with a sleep to investigate, switch to explicit element wait if found).

• Try resizing the windowe