How to focus on a element the right way?

Question

Im doing webtest using selenium Webdriver in C#. But I'm having a problem where when the browser window isn't in full size a popup will open half way outside the visible area.

The problem is that when i fire a .Click(); it doesn't do anything because the link i attempt to click is outside of the viewed area.

So how do i focus on the link to get click to work? Im currently using the following workaround but i don't think that's a nice way.

        _blogPostPage.FindElement(By.XPath(_popupLogin)).SendKeys("");
        _blogPostPage.FindElement(By.XPath(_popupLogin)).Click();

The sendkeys with space focuses on the link and makes Click work everytime, but isn't there a right way to do it?

Answer 1

Instead of doing send key for blank value, send it for space. Thats the keyboard shortcut to select a checkbox.

Just replace the code :

_blogPostPage.FindElement(By.XPath(_popupLogin)).SendKeys("");
_blogPostPage.FindElement(By.XPath(_popupLogin)).Click();

by

_blogPostPage.FindElement(By.XPath(_popupLogin)).SendKeys(Keys.Space);