Can I make Behat/ZombieJS/Mink simulate a click on a “non-link” element, to fire JS listeners?

Question

I am using Behat for testing, with the ZombieJS driver, and everything is working very well so far, but there is one thing that bothers me, I can\'t seem to figure out how t

Answer 1

This is my adaptation of the answer by Comstar. The same functionality is achieved, however, it seems simpler to me to do it this way.

/**
 * @Then /^I click on "([^"]*)"$/
 */
public function iClickOn($arg1)
{
    $page = $this->getSession()->getPage();

    $findName = $page->find("css", $arg1);
     if (!$findName){
        throw new Exception($arg1." could not be found");
    }
    else {
        $findName->click();
    }

}