How to avoid MouseOver on Selenium Click()

Question

In one of my Selenium test cases, I have the problem that there are MouseOver effects that I don't want to have. This is what I do:

1. Click on the "login" button (top-right of the page)
2. Wait for page to load
3. Click on the "buy" button in the search results (middle-right of the page).

The problem is, that there is a "shopping basket" link with a MouseOver effect right in the middle between "login" and "buy". So when I call Click() on the "login" button and afterwards on the "buy" button, I trigger the MouseOver, which opens a small preview of the shopping cart, which hides the "buy" button behind itself.

This goes for Firefox and MSIE. In Chrome, I don't have this kind of effect.

Any idea anyone?

Answer 1

As Andrew is right. If it is not happening manually then it should not happened here as well.

You can also try to click using JavascriptExecutor

WebElement element= driver.findElement(By.xpath("Your Xpath"));

JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

Below is some example that how you can do it using C#

Execute JavaScript using Selenium WebDriver in C#

Hope it will help you :)

Answer 2

I still don't know the real solution, but here's the dirty workaround I'm using:

public static void Click(this IWebElement element, TestTarget target)
{
    if (target.IsInternetExplorer)
    {
        var actions = new Actions(target.Driver);
        actions.MoveToElement(element).Perform();
        Thread.Sleep(500); // wait for the mouseover popup to appear
        element.SendKeys(Keys.Escape); // to close the popup (if any)
        actions.MoveToElement(element).DoubleClick().Perform(); // simple click is sometimes not enough in IE
    }
    else
    {
        element.Click();
    }
}