I encountered a similar issue recently.
I had to check that the menu tab "LIFE EVENTS" was present in the scroll box. The problem is that there are many menu tabs and you are required to scroll down to see the rest of the menu tabs. So my initial solution worked fine with the visible menu tabs but not the ones that were out of sight.
I used the xpath below to point selenium to the parent element of the entire scroll box.
@FindBy(xpath = "//div[contains(@class, 'menu-tree')]")
protected WebElement menuTree;
I then created a list of WebElements that I could increment through.
The solution worked if the menu tab was visible, and returned a true. But if the menu tab was out of sight, it returned false
public boolean menuTabPresent(String theMenuTab) {
List<WebElement> menuTabs = new ArrayList<WebElement>();
menuTabs = menuTree.findElements(By.xpath("//i/following-sibling::span"));
for(WebElement e: menuTabs) {
System.out.println(e.getText());
if(e.getText().contains(theMenuTab)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
I found 2 solutions to the problem which both work equally well.
for(WebElement e: menuTabs) {
scrollElementIntoView(e); //Solution 1
System.out.println(e.getAttribute("textContent")); //Solution 2
if(e.getAttribute("textContent").contains(theMenuTab)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
Solution 1 calls the method below. It results in the scroll box to physically move down while selenium is running.
protected void scrollElementIntoView(WebElement element) {
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true)", element);
}
Solution 2 gets the text content (even for the menu tabs not currently visible) of the attribute that you are pointing to. Thus doing the job properly that .getText() was not able to do in this situation.