Click a particular X and Y co-ordinates in the browser pane by using watir webdriver

[Srinivas Desai]

Hi All,

I need to know how can we click on a particular x and y co-ordinates in the browser pane by using watir web driver.

I already have x,y co-ordinates with me, i just need to click.

Please let me know how it can be done.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Srinivas.

[John Fitisoff]

Think what you need is here:

http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/rb/Selenium/WebDriver/ActionBuilder.html

Watir's browser object has a method to access the driver and page elements have the wd method

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[Chuck van der Linden]

using specific x,y coordinates is perhaps one of the best ways to create a brittle hard to maintain script.  running the script on a different system with different browser size, zoom level, site re-designs, etc  all can break the script.

Is there a specific reason you are trying to do things this way?  Normally there are far better ways to figure out where to click.  And where those don't work there are tools like Sikuli that work visually which are still usually a better alternative to a fixed X,Y based action

[Srinivas Desai]

Yes the main reason why am doing this way is none of the objects are recognizable. But i have x,y coordinates of all the objects. If i click an object that will result in a popup and i have to test the popup results also.

This is the main reason am completely depending on this approach.

[Mariano Giagante]

Maybe that'll be better than browsing the link directly. At least you're testing the button.

I'm new to this, but as far as I know, the way you can refer items in a webpage is pretty code-dependant. Maybe you should ask the developer for help on how to identify those elements.

If it's shown after a mouseover or another event, you can use the fire_event method of the element class (inherited by all elements).

Hope it helps.

[Super Kevy]

Is it an HTML object like  area ?  is it an embedded object like flashplayer?

[Srinivas Desai]

No its not an HTML object or flash, we are using some internal tool which will render the view by parsing an XML file.

[Super Kevy]

So we ruled out two types of things its not (HTML or FLASH). 

Is it Silverlight, Applet or is this some special plugin?    

Is the object in an HTML embed element block?

You need to provide more information.  Can the object take focus, can it be tabbed. Does it have keyboard shortcuts.  

What are you trying to do with the object?

[is199 BY]

Hi All,

This is chinnu...Please let me know how to click on an HTML element based on the X,Y coordinates...

First of all let me know how to find the co ornidates of an HTML elemenet I am using Watir-Webdriver ruby....

Please help me....

[is199 BY]

On Friday, August 2, 2013 11:10:46 AM UTC+5:30, Srinivas Desai wrote: