xpath for capturing hover css property from selenium webelement in python

Question

I want to capture whether any button has hover property like background color change when mouse is taken over the button.

i can get the cursor property as:

print webElement.value_of_css_property('cursor')

but cant find how to do it for capturing hover property.

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-03 13:20:00Z

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You can get the background-color, color, text-decoration or similar related CSS properties with value_of_css_property():

webElement.value_of_css_property('background-color')
webElement.value_of_css_property('color')
webElement.value_of_css_property('text-decoration')

Based on this, we can make a function that would get the CSS properties, hover an element and assert the CSS properties changed:

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

def get_properties(element):
    return {
        prop: element.value_of_css_property(prop)
        for prop in ['background-color', 'color', 'text-decoration']
    }

def is_hovered(driver, element):
    properties_before = get_properties(element)

    ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(element).perform()

    properties_after = get_properties(element)
    return properties_before != properties_after

Usage:

button = driver.find_element_by_id("#mybutton")
is_hovered(driver, button)

edited Aug 3, 2015 at 13:20

answered Aug 3, 2015 at 12:59

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3 Comments

aman Over a year ago

How would i know whether the webElement has hovering enabled. i want to return true and false, then capture both the color of buttons before and after hovering.

alecxe Over a year ago

@aman the idea would be to get the css property values before the hover, then hover the element and assert the css properties changed. Lmk, if you need help implementing it.

aman Over a year ago

yes i need to implement it to capture the buttons with such hover enabled property but cant find a way. please help me on this

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