if you are using watir-webdriver have you tried the 'hover' method to get the dropdown to appear?
On Thursday, April 19, 2012 2:52:27 PM UTC-7, mndude wrote: > > I have a web app with a top menu bar with drop down menus in it driven > by javascript (extjs). I can easily access the menu items in Firefox > and Chrome. But IE does not work the same way. The menu requires > either a mouse hover or click on the top item to drop down and then a > click on the item to be selected. This is easy and fast in FF, > Chrome: > > driver.p( :text => topmenu ).when_present.click > driver.a( :text => submenu ).when_present.click > > In IE what happens is that the first click drops down the menu, but > then the menu disappears before the 2nd line can complete the click on > the actual item to be selected. The 2nd click fails because the item > is, of course, not visible. > > Watir webdriver appears to not have the Selenium webdriver actions? > In Selenium webdriver I would try something like this: > > driver.action.click(topmenu).click(submenu).perform > > Is there a way to access the Selenium webdriver actions in Watir > webdriver? Or some other solution for IE in this situation? The > Watir browser object appears to not have an "action" set of methods. -- 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
