Hi Jerome, On 03/19/2010 02:52 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote: > Hi Alex, > > We could add a helper method for this situation in BasePage, with a > signature like: > > void makeElementVisible(By locator); > That would be nice, there are many places where control elements are hidden like this.
> Do you know if their is an issue in their tracker for this ? If they have > plans to support it in the future? > You mean to make elements visible? I don't think they will ever support that, they always say that selenium tries to emulate user behavior, and users can't just show invisible elements. There is no issue about hovering neither, but it looks like one month ago it was not yet implemented at all. Link to the discussion about hover: http://groups.google.com/group/selenium-developers/browse_thread/thread/3a88b3af5bb18a82 Alex > Regards, > Jerome > >> In case somebody is interested, I found a workaround on selenium mailing >> list. The trick is to execute some JavaScript that does what is needed, >> in my case just shows the element. >> >> >> By locator = By.xpath("//a[contains(@href, '" + name >> + "')]/ancestor::sp...@class='blog-category-level']" >> + "//sp...@class='blog-category-tools']"); >> WebElement category = getDriver().findElement(locator); >> >> if (getDriver() instanceof JavascriptExecutor) { >> JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) getDriver(); >> // instead of hovering, just show the toolbox >> js.executeScript("arguments[0].style.visibility='visible'", >> category); >> } >> >> >> Alex >> >> On 03/18/2010 02:53 AM, Alex Busenius wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm writing integration tests for the patch fixing >>> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XABLOG-99. In particular, I want to >>> test adding, renaming and deleting of blog categories from >>> Blog/ManageCategories page. >>> >>> >>> My problem is that the "toolbox" with rename and delete buttons is only >>> displayed on hover, and selenium complains that it cannot access >>> invisible elements. >>> >>> >>> I tried to use RenderedWebElement.hover() as follows: >>> >>> By locator = By.xpath("//a[contains(@href, \"" >>> + name + "\")]/ancestor::sp...@class='blog-category-level']"); >>> RenderedWebElement category >>> = (RenderedWebElement) getDriver().findElement(locator); >>> category.hover(); >>> >>> but the n I get error "Unable to hover over element". >>> >>> >>> Does anybody knows how to show these delete buttons? >>> I'm using FF 3.6 on Linux. >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Alex >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devs mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
