> I have been required to verify that the things done onmouseover are
> correctly done in our GUI. These are visual things that are defined in
> CSS using :hover.

> Selenium (I am using the Core based way via RC) has a method mouseOver
> that does fire a mouseover event but does not get the :hover rule
> active. Others also ran into this problem:
> - http://groups.google.com/group/selenium-users/browse_thread/thread/a6...
> - http://groups.google.com/group/selenium-users/browse_thread/thread/85...

> I am having here an implementation that would support this, but only
> for Firefox Chrome (I am using this on FF3/3.5/3.6). I know that there
> are other calls that do not work (the same) on different browsers. I
> have not yet opened an issue for that as I would first like to here
> your opinions on such browser specific implementations.

> Here is what I am doing:

> /**
>  * Overwrites the original mouse out function and additionally
> deactivates the pseudo class :hover in Firefox Chrome
>  *
>  * @param {String} locator an element locator
>  */
> Selenium.prototype.doMouseOut = function(locator) {
>        var element = this.browserbot.findElement(locator);
>        this.browserbot.triggerMouseEvent(element, 'mouseout', true);
>        if(browserVersion.isChrome) {
>                var domUtils = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/inspector/dom-utils;
> 1"].getService(Components.interfaces.inIDOMUtils);
>                // check if :hover is currently active
>                if(0x04 & domUtils.getContentState(element)) {
>                        domUtils.setContentState(element.ownerDocument.documentElement,
> 0x04);
>                }
>        }
> };

> /**
>  * Overwrites the original mouse over function and additionally
> activates the pseude class :hover in Firefox Chrome
>  *
>  * @param {String} locator an element locator
>  */
> Selenium.prototype.doMouseOver = function(locator) {
>        var element = this.browserbot.findElement(locator);
>        this.browserbot.triggerMouseEvent(element, 'mouseover', true);
>        if(browserVersion.isChrome) {
>                // set the :hover to active
>                var domUtils = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/inspector/dom-utils;
> 1"].getService(Components.interfaces.inIDOMUtils);
>                domUtils.setContentState(element, 0x04);
>        }
> };

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