Workaround for mouseOver with FirefoxDriver

[Juan Carlos]

Hi there,

I'm using Selenium Java 2b03. I have this code:

...
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
Selenium seleniumDriver = new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver, "http://
localhost:8088/Sistema/");
...
...
RenderedWebElement menuRegistrarSucursal =
(RenderedWebElement)driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[normalize-
space()='Registrar']"));
seleniumDriver.mouseOver("//a[normalize-space()='Registrar']");
menuRegistrarSucursal.click();
seleniumDriver.mouseOut("//a[normalize-space()='Registrar']");
...

Works like a charm on Internet Explorer, but it doesn't with a Firefox
driver. I've tried a million things and nothing works. And I must use
the FirefoxDriver because the application I'm testing doesn't behave
well with IE.

As you might guess, the "Registrar" link is hidden until the mouseOver
event triggers.

Any proved workarounds? Thanks for your time...

[Luke Inman-Semerau]

First upgrade to rc2, then start using the Action class:

WebElement menuRegistrarSucursal = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[normalize-space()='Registrar']"));

new Actions(driver).moveToElement(menuRegistrarSucursal).build().perform();

menuRegistrarSucursal.click()

The Actions use NativeEvents on the browsers (which is not supported cross platform... I can only get this to work on Windows with FF, doesn't work on Mac nor Linux). So you might want to wrap the action with:

if ((Boolean)((RemoteWebDriver)driver).getCapabilities().getCapability("nativeEvents")) {

and maybe specify the else with something else that sometimes works for you :)

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[Juan Carlos]

Hi,

Thanks for the answer! I did just that and it worked. If your curious,
the working code is in this Stackoverflow question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6232390/

Although I didn't know about the native events issue. I'll keep it in
mind. Thanks for the extra info!

On 6 jun, 16:12, Luke Inman-Semerau <luke.seme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> First upgrade to rc2, then start using the Action class:
>
> WebElement
> menuRegistrarSucursal =
> driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[normalize-space()='Registrar']"));
> new Actions(driver).moveToElement(menuRegistrarSucursal).build().perform();
> menuRegistrarSucursal.click()
>
> The Actions use NativeEvents on the browsers (which is not supported cross
> platform... I can only get this to work on Windows with FF, doesn't work on
> Mac nor Linux). So you might want to wrap the action with:
> if

> ((Boolean)((RemoteWebDriver)driver).getCapabilities().getCapability("native Events"))

[Thomas Hallgren]

I would very much like to have this function on Linux but as
predicted, I get the error:

org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException: Cannot perform
native interaction: native events are disabled on this platform.
System info: os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version:
'2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64', java.version: '1.6.0_20'

What other options do I have to perform a mouseOver using the
WebDriver? Apparently it is possible somehow because it works if I use
a WebDriverBackedSelenium and do a mouseOver.