Question

I can’t seem to get the actionbuilder to work in selenium webdriver. I am trying to automate a menu that uses Javascript. I need to mouse over then move and click on a link that appears after the mouse over.

$driver.find_element(:id, "top_menu").find_elements(:tag_name, "a").each{ |a|
  if a.attribute('href').include? "javascript"
    then w = a 
    $driver.action.move_to(w).perform
    break
  end
}

I realized that my hunt for this element is somewhat vague and not a best practice. I have already asked for an id for this element. Any advise on how to use the actionbuilder or a better way to automate mouse movements would be appreciated.

Here is the error I am getting.
`generateErrorForNativeEvents’: Cannot perform native interaction: Could not load native events component. (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::InvalidElementStateError

Thanks

Answer 1

Not positive, but I think the update to Firefox 14.0.1 might’ve broken it. Our tests just broke too. I’m still working on a fix.

UPDATE:
Yeah, I downgraded to Firefox 13.0.1 and my tests are working now.