Webdriver Unable to click hover over button for FireFox in Java

Question

I am trying to click a hover over 'edit' button. However, I keep getting "Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with" Error when I use mouseOverElement.
Any idea on how to make it work? Thanks

< div class="editbox" >
< h2>Title< /h2>
  < ul>
    < li >
       < small class="editlinks" >
            < a class="edit" href="#">Edit< / a >
       < /small>
     < strong> Content
    < /li>
  < /ul>
< /div>

Here is my code:

Approach 1:

WebElement textArea = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.editbox ul li"));
WebElement button = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.editbox ul li small.editlinks a.edit"));
Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
builder.moveToElement(textArea).build().perform();
timer.wait(5000);
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.editbox ul li small.editlinks a.edit")).clik();

Approach 2:

Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
builder.moveToElement(textArea);
timer.wait(5000);
builder.click(button);
builder.build().perform();

asgoth · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-08 22:10:11Z

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I'm using to following code to hover over an element:

if (element instanceof Locatable) {
    Locatable hoverItem = (Locatable) element;
    hoverItem.getLocationOnScreenOnceScrolledIntoView();
    Mouse mouse = ((HasInputDevices) webDriver).getMouse(); 
    mouse.mouseMove(hoverItem.getCoordinates());
}

Try if it works.

I'm not sure you can click on that li element, since it is invisible. Shouldn't you hover your link (a tag)?

answered Jan 8, 2013 at 22:10

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user1959462 Over a year ago

However, a tag is a hidden button. I need to hover over to the li element in order to make the edit button visible. is there any way to do it? thanks

asgoth Over a year ago

Normally, if you inspect the element with Chrome Dev Tools or Firebug, the element will be grayed out if invisible. Did you try the above code to hover?

user1959462 Over a year ago

I tried to use the above code. but the element is still not showing up for click.

Manigandan Over a year ago

@asgoth : I tried the above code and it is working fine for chrome -v26.x.xx browser. But fails in FF- v11.0 and IE- v8(64Bit). Is anything i've to do to work on other browsers? Is any other solution to resolve this issue? Let me know i am struggling with this issue for a long peroid

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