Selenium / Firefox: Command “.click()” doesn't work with a found element

Question

I tried to find a solution to this thing and I spent a lot of time, but it is almost imposible to me to do that.

The matter: I am using Selenium with Java in Firefox

Answer 1

Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(element);
actions.click(element);
Action action = actions.build();
action.perform();

This worked for me.

Answer 2

I have the same problem in Firefox. The trick is to click the text inside of not the button itself.

Answer 3

You can try to use the Actions class from org.openqa.selenium.interactions:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("size-btn"));
Actions builder = new Actions(driver);

builder.moveToElement(element).click(element);
builder.perform();

Answer 4

Finally I found an answer that works with Firefox as well as Google Chrome.

WebElement we = this.driver.findElement(By.id("size-btn"));

JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", we);

waitForElementPresent(By.xpath("//div[@id='size-btn' and contains(@class,'opened')]/span"));

Thanks for reading me.

Answer 5

I am not sure why are you using this Xpath, if you have freedom to change Xpath then record the element using selenium IDE and use Xpath::position from drop down list of target(it picks unique path relative to html header), it will solve problem of dynamic locator. And try below mentioned events.

1- Use clickAt.

2- Use fireevent(focus) and then click. Sometime it happens some element in back ground is getting loaded, when it gets loaded, focus move there hence elementNotVisible error.

3- Use mouseDownRight.

Answer 6

I have some solution, make a class with a robot put there TAB event keys, then call that class. What it does its like a back to focus to the page. For some razon the page lost focus and never find that botton.

   Robot robot;
    try {
        robot = new Robot();
        robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);
        robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);

    } catch (AWTException e) {e.printStackTrace();}