Selenium - Not able to Click Dynamically Visible Menu

Question

I have a Menu which have li (list) elements which gets enabled after you mouse-hover a particular label.

    driver.get("www.snapdeal.com");   Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
    actions.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.id("loggedOutAccount"))).build().perform();
    //Wait for 5 Secs
   driver.findElement(By.className("accountLink")).click();// Here it's throwing Element not visible exception

This code is doing the mouse-hover properly but not able to click the "SignIn Link" Link. Though on manually checking the element is Visible

DOM Structure -

<div id="loggedOutAccount" class="hd-rvmp-logout">
<a class="signIn" href="javascript:void(0);">
<i class="iconHeader accountUser"></i>
<label class="my-account-lang"> My Account</label>
<i class="mar_2_left right-downArrow breadcrumbArrow-down"></i>
</a>
<div class="sdNavDropWrapper accDetails" style="display: none; z-index: 999;">
<ul class="positionAbsolute pull-right">
<li class="customLoggedInState">
<div class="left triangle"></div>
<div class="right triangle"></div>
<div>
<a class="accountLink" href="javascript:void(0);">Click here to sign in ></a>
</div>
</li>
<li class="stop-event">
<li class="stop-event">
<li class="stop-event">
<li class="stop-event">
<li class="stop-event">
</ul>
</div>
</div>

does that element goes hide again when you remove mouse hover? — Helping Hands
– Helping Hands, Commented Feb 6, 2015 at 10:19
yes... elements hide again once the mouse hover is removed.. — brij
– brij, Commented Feb 6, 2015 at 10:23
Can you please use xpath to find both element? logoutbutton and accountlink? — Helping Hands
– Helping Hands, Commented Feb 6, 2015 at 10:27
Once you have hover over it, you can try to move the driver focus to the required element by chaining 2 moveToElement calls. — Vivek Singh
– Vivek Singh, Commented Feb 6, 2015 at 10:30

Helping Hands · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-06 11:00:13Z

1

Please use xpath for both element like below :

driver.get("www.snapdeal.com");   
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.xpath("yourxpathhere"))).build().perform();

driver.findElement(By.xpath("yourxpathhere")).click();

I think class/Id repeating for other elements also for style purpose. so Xpath is better to find unique element.

answered Feb 6, 2015 at 11:00

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