Selenium + C# + hover = difficult

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  • davidraimosson
    New Member
    • May 2012
    • 5
    #1

    Selenium + C# + hover = difficult

    Hi!

    For a couple of days I've been trying to use Selenium to automate testing of a website. This fails because of a hidden menu item that is only displayed when the parent item in the menu is hovered.

    The website I'm trying to test on is found here: http://www.sweetarabia ns.com/.

    The parent menu item is "Stallions" , which is contained in a HTML LI item. This is also the item to be hovered.

    Here is my C# code being used:
    Code:
    using NUnit.Framework;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions.Internal;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace Selenium
{
    [TestFixture]
    public partial class Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        public Int16 SweetArabians1()
        {
            Int16 result;
            IWebDriver ff_driver = new FirefoxDriver();

            ff_driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(new TimeSpan(0, 0, 30));
            ff_driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.sweetarabians.com/");

            var stallions_li = ff_driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("page-item-6"));
            Actions action1 = new Actions(ff_driver);
            action1.MoveToElement(stallions_li).Perform();

            var stallions_link = stallions_li.FindElement(By.LinkText("Stallions"));
            Actions action2 = new Actions(ff_driver);
            action2.MoveToElement(stallions_link).Perform();

            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(ff_driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
            var hero_link = wait.Until((d) => { return d.FindElement(By.LinkText("Sweet Hero")); });

            ff_driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Sweet Hero")).Click();

            # Wait a few seconds and then do some testing of the to-be-loaded page here...

            if (ff_driver != null)
            {
                ff_driver.Close();
            };
        }

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            SweetArabians1();
        }
    }
}
    This doesn't make the submenu appear at all and I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. Does anybody have a clue? Any help is appreciated.

    Best regards

    David
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    • davidraimosson
      New Member
      • May 2012
      • 5
      #2
      I've tried to simulate a hover on the following simple HTML code as well, without success:

      Code:
      <!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--

#test {
	background: #00ff00;
	display: block;
	height: 20px;
	width: 200px;
}

#test:hover > div {
	display: block;
}

#inside {
	display: none;
}

-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="test">
	Hover me!<br>
	<div id="inside">
		<a href="about:blank">Go to blank page</a>
	</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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        • davidraimosson
          New Member
          • May 2012
          • 5
          #3
          After some further struggling I think I know what the problem is. Namely that the FirefoxDriver uses synthetic events instead of native events. Because of that the hovering was never triggered. I got it to work with the InternetExplore rDriver which always uses native events.

          If I could find out how to use native events with the FirefoxDriver, which should be possible, then I suppose it would solve the problem as well.

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