Element Click unable to interact with element in <iframe> that is outside viewport

[andreastt]

The Element Click command is currently unable to interact with (hit) elements inside <iframe>s that are outside the viewport because it does not bring the <iframe> into view first. This is because Element.scrollIntoView on the element inside the frame only moves the viewport of the frame.

This bug was reported on geckodriver, so see https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/issues/1039 for more details.

[andreastt]

I suspect we need to find out if the target web element is inside a frame, then first scroll all of its parent frame elements into view recursively.

[Gitrrrr]

Any guess when this issue will fix?

[shs96c]

Do we need to iteratively move through each viewport, from that closest to the element to the top-level one, attempting to scroll the element into view?

[whimboo]

If browsers have implemented the browsing contexts spec there would be a browsing context tree, which could be iteratively moved up via the parent browsing context. I think the relevant part of the spec should be https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/browsers.html#windows:browsing-context-10

[whimboo]

@shs96c and @AutomatedTester do you have any feedback to my last comment? Would that be a plausible operation?