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Leslie Chong
Leslie Chong

Reputation: 1345

Mouseover events for Firefox Driver / Selenium Webdriver on Mac OSX doesn't work

After searching everywhere, I cannot seem to find a solution for getting mouseover events to work on with Firefox 16.0.2 and Selenium 2.28 on Mac OSX (I believe this is supposedly a problem specific to Mac OSX but this code should work on a Windows machine). I have the following which hovers over objectOnScreen which should reveal somethingElseOnScreen:

//set enable native events is suggested by another post to make these native events work
FirefoxProfile prof = new FirefoxProfile(); 
prof.setEnableNativeEvents(true); 
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(prof);

// Hover over objectOnScreen which should reveal somethingElseOnScreen
Action builder;
Actions hover = new Actions(driver);
WebElement objectOnScreen = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//..."))
hover.moveToElement(objectOnScreen);
builder = hover.build();
builder.perform();

// Click something new that should appear on screen
By somethingElseOnScreen = By.xpath("//...");
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 5L);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(somethingElseOnScreen));
driver.findElement(somethingElseOnScreen).click();

This code works in Chrome but not in Firefox. In Firefox, somethingElseOnScreen never appears (I get a NoSuchElementException for the wait.until... line), and when I watch the browser I never see the hover working.

I've also tried these 2 things but neither fixes the issue:

Does anyone have a workaround for this issue?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5845

Answers (1)

Alex Okrushko
Alex Okrushko

Reputation: 7372

My workaround was to manually change the css display property of the element to inline (or block - depending on your HTML code) that is hidden and should appear on "mouseover" (or call the JavaScript that adds the needed element on the same even - depending on your HTML code).

I can tell you specifically what code you can write, if you can tell me 3 things:

  1. what language you are using for Selenium
  2. HTML/css properties of element before mouseover
  3. HTML/css properties of element after mouseover

Upvotes: 1

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