Unable to click the element in Win 8.1 in selenium 2.48.0

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Harish Krishnan

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Oct 7, 2015, 11:23:08 PM10/7/15
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Hi,

Am working with selenium webdriver with java, facing the problem in clicking on the webelement in IE 11.


The element locator is mention below.
<div class="hotSpotOverlay mlb_click" style="position: absolute; cursor: pointer; height: 234px; width: 222px; left: 4px; top: 3px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; opacity: 1;"/>

OS : windows 8.1 pro
IE version : 11.0.9600.17031
Updated version : 11.07

Selenium version : 2.48.0

Regards,
Harikrishnan

MWQA

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Oct 8, 2015, 3:44:29 AM10/8/15
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What problem? All you have posted is minimal html. Where is your webdriver code?

Harish Krishnan

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Oct 8, 2015, 4:54:59 AM10/8/15
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Problem is am working with windows 7 with same code it works fine . Now am working with windows 8 with code. Its not working 

I have checked with all combination of xpath, css, Key event and java script. It skipping that line of script and navigates to next line.
 not throws any exception


WebDriver driver;
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
    capabilities.setCapability("chrome.binary","E:/Harikrishnan/Selenium_Jar/IEDriverServer.exe");
capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "E:/Harikrishnan/Selenium_Jar/IEDriverServer.exe");
driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(capabilities);
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='skPageLayoutCell_83-north-west_slider']/div[2]/div[3]/div")).click();



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What problem? All you have posted is minimal html. Where is your webdriver code?

On Thursday, 8 October 2015 04:23:08 UTC+1, Hari wrote:
Hi,

Am working with selenium webdriver with java, facing the problem in clicking on the webelement in IE 11.


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Mark Collin

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Oct 8, 2015, 5:14:41 AM10/8/15
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Don't use:

capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);

You have introduced flakiness which is why your scripts don't work properly.

Have a good long read of this blog post Jim Evans made:


He knows a thing or two about the IE driver since he wrote it.


On Thursday, 8 October 2015 09:54:59 UTC+1, Hari wrote:
Problem is am working with windows 7 with same code it works fine . Now am working with windows 8 with code. Its not working 

I have checked with all combination of xpath, css, Key event and java script. It skipping that line of script and navigates to next line.
 not throws any exception


WebDriver driver;
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
    capabilities.setCapability("chrome.binary","E:/Harikrishnan/Selenium_Jar/IEDriverServer.exe");
capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "E:/Harikrishnan/Selenium_Jar/IEDriverServer.exe");
driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(capabilities);
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='skPageLayoutCell_83-north-west_slider']/div[2]/div[3]/div")).click();


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What problem? All you have posted is minimal html. Where is your webdriver code?

On Thursday, 8 October 2015 04:23:08 UTC+1, Hari wrote:
Hi,

Am working with selenium webdriver with java, facing the problem in clicking on the webelement in IE 11.


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Harish Krishnan

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Oct 8, 2015, 5:34:23 AM10/8/15
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Hi Mark,

I have i gone through your site, i have change the code also.

The cod works fine with chrome, firefox with widows 8.1. But the code not works on IE 11 with windoes 8.1. 

Its launching the site, after that it want to click action want to perform. It not performing the click action and it skips to next code.

Regards,
Harikrishnan




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Mark Collin

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Oct 8, 2015, 6:17:02 AM10/8/15
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You could try setting these two capabilities:

capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.ENABLE_PERSISTENT_HOVERING, true);
capabilities.setCapability("requireWindowFocus", true);

They tend to make things more reliable for me. The first one should stop IE from flickering between the true mouse position and the position Selenium is telling IE the mouse is at. The second should focus IE in the foreground.
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Shawn Knight

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Oct 8, 2015, 7:22:43 AM10/8/15
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have you consider using an explicit wait on your button before clicking on it?

Harish Krishnan

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Oct 8, 2015, 7:40:56 AM10/8/15
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Mark - No more hope with this in the combination of Windows 8 with IE 11, for particular click

Shawn - am working with the framework, its not works, so i planned to work with normal scripts for particular click. 

No exception throws.

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have you consider using an explicit wait on your button before clicking on it?

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Mark Collin

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Oct 8, 2015, 9:40:09 AM10/8/15
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I would guess you are probably suffering from this then:




On Thursday, 8 October 2015 12:40:56 UTC+1, Hari wrote:

Mark - No more hope with this in the combination of Windows 8 with IE 11, for particular click

Shawn - am working with the framework, its not works, so i planned to work with normal scripts for particular click. 

No exception throws.
On 8 October 2015 at 04:22, Shawn Knight <shawn.kn...@gmail.com> wrote:
have you consider using an explicit wait on your button before clicking on it?

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