Selenium IDE 1.1.0 - testing javascript mouseover menu

[nap0leon]

Any advice for a newbie?

I am testing a typical top-Nav menu (5 tabs, when you hover over each
tab and sub-menu appears).

The pertinent part of my test script looks this:
<tr>
<td>verifyNotVisible</td>
<td>//html/body/div/div/div/ul[2]/li/ul/li</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>mouseOver</td>
<td>/html/body/div/div/div/ul[2]/li/a</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>waitForVisible</td>
<td>//html/body/div/div/div/ul[2]/li/ul/li</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

The issue is the last piece - where I am trying to verify that the sub-
menu became visible.
If I let the script run on its own, waitForVisible returns "[error]
Timed out after 30000ms"
If I manually mouseOver the tab, the sub-menu appears and the test
passes.

Much appreciated!!!!

[nap0leon]

Btw, I've determined that the css that makes the sub-menu apper is
"hover" not "mouseOver". Can this css be invoked with selenium or
must I force the css change, and if so, how would I do this?

Thanks.

[nap0leon]

I got it to work... placing the answer here in case anyone else is
having a similar issue.

1- verifyNotVisible(submenu element's XPath) - verifies the submenu is
not visible when the page loads (useful to prevent false-positives in
case the later test to verify it is visible)
2- mouseOver(mainmenu element's XPath) - mouse over to the heading in
the menu you want to hover over
3- mouseMove(mainmenu element's XPath) - move the mouse at the same
location as step 2
4- waitForVisible(submenu element's XPath) - wait for the submenu to
appear

<tr>
<td>verifyNotVisible</td>
<td>//html/body/div/div/div/ul[2]/li/ul/li</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>mouseOver</td>

<td>//html/body/div/div/div/ul[2]/li/a</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>mouseMove</td>
<td>//html/body/div/div/div/ul[2]/li/a</td>

[moshe_s]

I want to be able to test the ToolTip that I have on my WEB page.
Will this work also with in the case of a ToolTip ?

[nap0leon]

The technique above is how I was able to trigger a ".hover" CSS change
in visibility.

If your ToolTip is an actual element on the page that uses .hover to
change visibility (e.g., a div that is hidden and then becomes visible
using visibility:visible or display:inline) then this approach should
work.