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Not able scroll down the page using selenium - nUnit, C#

I am getting the following error while trying to click on a button which is present at the bottom of the page. Looks like this error is coming because that button is not visible at the first point, if we scroll the page down then only selenium is able to identify that button.
OpenQA.Selenium.ElementClickInterceptedException : element click intercepted: Element <span>...</span> is not clickable at point (1113, 659)..
I have tried with following code to scroll down the web page but it does not help me.
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.SendKeys(Keys.ArrowDown);
If I try with element.Sendkeys(Keys.ArrowDown) then also its not helping.
what would be the correct approach here?

You should use Actions class to perform scrolling to the element in this way
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
var element = driver.FindElement(...);
actions.MoveToElement(element);
actions.Perform();
substitute ... with the selector for the element.
There is also another method relying on javascript
IJavaScriptExecutor js = (IJavaScriptExecutor) driver;
js.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", element);

Can't move to a webelement?

Obviously selenium doesn't interact with an webelement until it's in the view, and selenium automatically tries to scroll to that webelement. But in my case when I try to click a particular button it doesn't scroll it in to view, it simply scrolls to a random place in the page.
Objective:
scrolls the webelement into view, and then click that element.
Methods I've already used:
element.Click(); //method 1
Actions actions = new Actions(driver); // method 2
actions.MoveToElement(element);
actions.Perform();
IJavaScriptExecutor js = driver as IJavaScriptExecutor; //method 3
js.ExecuteScript("$('#Id_Body' + element_id)[0].scrollIntoView( true );"); //because the driver scrolls to a random place I use this to get back to the top of the page.
int Y = element.Location.Y, X = element.Location.X;
js.ExecuteScrip($"window.scrollBy( {X}, {Y};");
I'm using selenium 2.48.0, firefoxDriver 43.0.1
Is there a fix for this issue? if someone knows of an older version of selenium/firefox that works fine with one of these methods please tell me, thanks.

Try double MoveToElement
Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.MoveToElement(elementParent).MoveToElement(elementToClick).Build().Perform();
First move to the element area and than to the element you want to click.

Why don't use scrollIntoView() directly:
js.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", element);

Selenium - Force click on non-visible element

I'm using C# Selenium.WebDriver.2.44.0
On some 3rd party site I'm trying to press an element and get this:
var myWebElement = Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[.=' some value']
myWebElement.Click();
I get the element and on click I get this:
{"element not visible\n (Session info: chrome=39.0.2171.95)\n (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9.248315,platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86_64)"}
The item is within some sub menu revealing after I successfully press the parent menu. Also put 5 seconds sleep to be safe that the accordion is well seen (and it is well seen in my eyes).
Question - on 3rd party site how can I force the click on this item?

You could try bringing it to the top by changing the z-index with driver.execute_script().

You could use the inbuilt functions and WebDriver waits
var myWebElement = Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[.=' some value']
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(Driver.FindElement, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
var element = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementIsVisible(myWebElement));
Actions action = new Actions(Driver.FindElement);
action.MoveToElement(element).Perform();
myWebElement.Click();

The problem is that Selenium executes actions one after another, but something like "show a sub menu" is lost between actions.
You're likely going to have to use an Actions chain for this:
Actions action = new Actions(Driver);
action.MoveToElement(Driver.FindElement(By(ParentElementSelector)))
.click()
.MoveToElement(Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[.=' some value'])))
.click()
.Build()
.Perform();
This will move to the parent element, click, then move to the element you wish to find, then click. It will perform all of these as one action, which should be able to click the sub menu element.

When an element is not visible u can try this...It works for me
IWebElement WEHiddenID = driver.FindElement(By.Id(""));
WEHiddenID.SendKeys(OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Enter);

Selenium click link multiple times

I'm automating tests for our webapp in Selenium WebDriver for C#. One of our test scenarios identified an issue with clicking the save button multiple times resulting in multiple identical records.
The standard IWebElement.Click() causes Selenium to block until the page is fully loaded. That means by the time our second click comes around to executing, the postback has been performed and we're not on the form page anymore.
Does anyone know a means of 'manually' clicking an element that won't cause Selenium to block?

You could either wait for a predetermined amount of time for the page to load:
driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
...or to be more dynamic and wait for your button to appear:
var driver = new WebDriver();
var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan(0, 1, 0));
wait.Until(d => d.FindElement(By.Id("button"));
Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7811812/2006048
Selenium also has source code that is similar to the second method: http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/dotnet/src/WebDriver.Support/UI/ExpectedConditions.cs
Let me know if it works out for you. I personally use these options with WatiN:
browser.WaitForComplete();
...or:
browser.WaitUntilContainsText("Text");
It's a shame Selenium does not have the first one.

If we use JavaScript to send our click events, Selenium will not be blocked and we can click multiple times. However, because our click triggers a page load, we cannot reference the element directly. Instead, we need to specify the location to click and then fire our click events.
Because our WebApp uses JQuery, I was able to use the code specified here:
How to simulate a click by using x,y coordinates in JavaScript?
So in the end our C# logic looks something like this:
IWebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("foobar"));
Point point = element.Location;
IJavascriptExecutor jscript = (IJavascriptExecutor)driver;
jscript.executeScript("$(document.elementFromPoint(arguments[0], arguments[0])).click();", point.X, point.Y);
Although this sends the click event I'm not 100% sure that the element receives it; I'll run some experiments and see.

What you need to do is click via javascript. In java this is done like this:
IJavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfd")));
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfd")));
I actually imagine it is very similar, this will not block selenium and you should be able to chain a few on before the page comes back.
if this newer approach is too slow you might be quicker doing it all in js, e.g.
IJavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("document.getElementById(id).click();");
executor.executeScript("document.getElementById(id).click();");

Selenium WebDriver SubMenu click not working

I am not able to Click on SubMenu item using selenium webdriver using c#.
I am using IE9 and FireFox 13.
I have tried Action Builder but it does not work.
It gives an error saying element cannot be clicked.
WebDriverWait Wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
IWebElement menu = Wait.Until((d) => webDriver.FindElement(By.Id("id1")));
IWebElement menuOption = Wait.Until((d)=>webDriver.FindElement(By.Id("ID2")));
Actions builder = new Actions(webDriver);
builder.MoveToElement(menu).Build().Perform();
Thread.Sleep(5);
//then click when menu option is visible
menuOption.Click();
I have used even javascript :
js.ExecuteScript("return $(\"a:contains('ID1')\").mouseover();"); // Mouse hove to main menu
webDriver.FindElement(By.Id("ID2")).Click();
Please give some solution to click on hidden elements

You could use Expected Conditions to wait for element being clickable after hovering above it (Thread.sleep() is almost always the bad choice. And 5 ms won't be enough.).
The docs for this class (ExpectedConditions in OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI namespace) are broken as I can see them now, but if you can follow the Java code in the link above, here are the Expected conditions for Java - it's really almost the same in C#, too.

Instead of using the statement Thread.sleep(). You can try to click on the element after making sure that it is displayed.
After you get the WebElement you want to click on , check if it is displayed by using the isDisplayed() method within the ExpectedContition statement about which #Slanec is talking about in the above post.
By this you can make sure you will click on the element only after Wait.Until() returns true. i.e the menuOption is displayed.
I'm writing the code in java as I do not know C#. But I guess you can figure out what I'm trying to say -
new WebDriverWait(driver, 60).until(new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
public Boolean apply(WebDriver driver ) {
return driver.findElement(By.Id("ID2")).isDisplayed();
}
});
I hope that this helps you.