Selenium python Error: element could not be scrolled into view

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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().

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:

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?

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

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()

This usecase

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

DevTools Snapshot:

ModalDialogBox

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

DevTools Snapshot:

XPath

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