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Bfcm
Bfcm

Reputation: 2746

Keyword "Click Element" doesn't always work correct

I'm facing problem, that keyword "Click Element" doesn't always work correct.

For example, I want to go to the link on the web-site.

xpath for the Link is the: 

${xpathIMButton}                xpath=//a/span[contains(text(),"${exprIM}")]
${exprIM}                       Infrastructure Management

To click on the Link with Mouse Over I use following:

Wait Until Page Contains Element            ${xpathIMButton}
Mouse Over                                  ${xpathIMButton}
Click Element                               ${xpathIMButton}    don't wait

That's pretty simple, but what I see on the Logs is confusing:

Logs

The screenshot from HTML-source of the button:

html-code for button

So, the Robot finds the link (Wait Until Page Contains Element and Mouse Over) are OK, but the Click Element fails. On the screenshot I can see, that the button actually exists. So what is the problem? Why I get those confusing error?

I'm using: RFW 2.7.5 SeleniumLibrary 2.8.1 Firefox 12

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6956

Answers (4)

Temizzi
Temizzi

Reputation: 412

It seems that your Mouse Over could cause the issue. The Mouse Over could cause the element to be hidden in DOM.

But this was 6 years ago with Selenium 1 Library. Now, we are using Selenium2Library in ROBOT Framework, so if you give a try or already done it, just let us know.

Upvotes: 0

Yu Zhang
Yu Zhang

Reputation: 2149

It may be a little late to provide an answer, but I had exactly this problem. What I did was to provide a bit waiting time for the page to fully load, then my button was successfully found.

Upvotes: 0

m_a_wizard
m_a_wizard

Reputation: 1

Click Element started to fail for me when I upgraded to Selenium 2.35, SeleniumLibrary 2.9.1 and Selenium2Library 1.2. My browser was Firefox 22. The Click Element was pressing a Save button. The same exact code worked 2 times and the third time said it worked but the confirm page never showed up. I solved my issue by putting a Focus keyword before my Click Element

Focus ${saveRule}

Click Element ${saveRule}

Now the code works the three times it is called. Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 0

finspin
finspin

Reputation: 4071

Try this:

Wait Until Page Contains Element            ${xpathIMButton}
Mouse Over                                  ${xpathIMButton}
Click Element                               ${xpathIMButton}    don't wait

Upvotes: 0

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