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Gokul P
Gokul P

Reputation: 464

How to click the visible: false button in capybara?

I can able to get the element through

page.find_button("Save", visible: :hidden, wait: 5)

But i can't trigger a click

page.find_button("Save", visible: :hidden, wait: 5).click

Upvotes: 0

Views: 628

Answers (1)

Thomas Walpole
Thomas Walpole

Reputation: 49950

Because Capybara is primarily designed as a testing tool it attempts to emulate what a user could actually do. Since a user can't click on a non-visible button Capybara can't directly either. If you're testing you need to replicate what a user would do.

If, on the other hand, you're just automating a site to scrape some data and really want to trigger the click event you can try something like

page.find_button("Save", visible: :hidden, wait: 5).execute_script('this.click()')

Note: If you do that in code that is actually testing a site/app your test is basically worthless.

Upvotes: 2

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