Found I have the same issues in IE9 as well. Older watir worked as it would let us click the non-visible link, so the script could navigate regardless of being able to make the menu choice visible. newer Watir and Watir-webdriver fail because you can't click a link that is not visible to the user, and I've yet to find a simple way to make the link visible
Here's a sample CSS based menu of the type I am speaking of https://www.servage.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/css-menu.html Note that sample is 'very pure-CSS' and won't work on earlier IE versions. (most 'real' menus of this variety do have some additional javascript in them to allow the menus to work with earlier IE, but for many of those, mouseover events seem to work to make the menus dance. Unfortunately the stuff in my app, while it does work with earlier IE, still won't dance to the mouseover tune.) if anyone can find a good way to automate this in Watir or Watir- Webdriver for IE and FF8 I'd love to see code. At the moment I'm kludging it by executing a bit of JQuery javascript (to modify the CSS for the appropriate class+element combination and change display from none to block so it renders all the menus visible) and then clicking the link. Something a bit more organic would be nice. On Dec 6, 3:08 pm, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is anyone else suddenly discovering they have difficulty with scripts > using a click immediately following onmouseover / hover type events in > firefox 8? It's as if FF is reporting the true mouse position to the > app immediately after I've done something like a click/mouseover event/ > hover and thus the client side code is un-rendering the control. as > a result I get exceptions for "Element not currently visible" > > My particular situationis that II have some fancy pulldown menus in > our app that are a bit of a challenge to automate since they are very > event driven (pulling up the pop-down menus when you mouse over or > click on the menu name) I'd been working with them by using either > an onmouseover or a click to make the menu appear, followed by > clicking the (now visible) link for the menu item I want. That was > working in FF7. Now with FF8 the item shows up ever so briefly (on a > click) and then vanishes, or never even shows up at all (as if the > event was never fired) > > With FF7 I was able to work with them by using code along these lines > > $browser.ul(:id => 'secondary_nav').li(:class => 'has_child_items > selected first').click > $browser.link(:text, 'Create New').click > > (the menu bar is a UL (unordered list), and each LI element is one of > the top level menus. The click/mouseover on that item causes the > 'pulldown' menu to appear. Thus allowing to click on the menu item > (in the form of a link) that is desired.) > > In FF7 that code works just fine, in FF8 the sub-menu is not visible > (or not vis long enough) and generates the element not visible > message. > > Is there perhaps some way in watir-webdriver to directly position the > actual mouse cursor over an object in the DOM so that we get a > 'genuine' hover response from the browser? -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
