A workaround for Selenium 2.0 WebDriver & the :hover pseudoclass

Question

Is there anybody who can provide a c# example of how to get past the known Selenium issue involving the css pseudo-class :hover?

Essentially, i am working on regression testing for a website startin w/ the selenium IDE (and building the rest of my code in Visual Studio 2008), and need to hover over a div, make it appear, and click a link inside said div.

All of my efforts have failed however, and it seems that many have this issue, with no solution.

Thanks in advance!

Have you looked at this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2973145/selenium-and-hover-css — prestomanifesto, Nov 29 '11 at 21:53

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 25 '14 at 23:59

Okay! So I appreciate the help (I had actually seen that thread, but the .hover() class has been deprecated, and I could not get it to work. I did, however, just find a solid workaround.

var phone = driver.FindElement(By.Id("phones"));
var phoneLi = phone.FindElements(By.TagName("li"));
Actions action  = new Actions(driver);//simply my webdriver
action.MoveToElement(phoneLi[1]).Perform();//move to list element that needs to be hovered
var click = action.MoveToElement(phoneLi[1].FindElements(By.TagName("a"))[0];//move to actual button link after the 'Li' was hovered
click.Click();
click.Perform(); //not too sure why I needed to use both of these, but I did. Don't care, it works ;)
IAlert alert = driver.SwitchTo().Alert();
alert.Accept();

Also, you will need to have a couple using statements included.

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions.Internal;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;

Hope This Helps!

Thanks very much for including the 'using' statements. Without it, I've been having a tough time trying to search for a solution to mouseover using Webdriver (C#) on IE. — , Aug 28 '12 at 15:33

A workaround for Selenium 2.0 WebDriver & the :hover pseudoclass

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