Question

I’m currently having a problems with a window not coming up during tests in Internet Explorer. I’m using Selenium-RC 2.6.0, programming my tests in C# and launching them using NUnit.

All of my tests work in Firefox and Chrome, but in Internet Explorer 9 when selenium executes a click on a link (The link launches a new window using Javascript) no window comes up. The window comes up just fine in Firefox and Chrome.

Turn on Popup-blocker is off, Enable Protected Mode is off, Accept all Cookies is on. Windows Firewall is off. Can anyone think of anything else that could be causing it? Or if this is a known bug? I have searched extensively both on SO and Google and haven’t turned up any helpful results yet.

Edit: Added code for the element I am attempting to use

<a id="supervisor" class="topmenu" onclick="switchSupervisor();"    href="javascript:void(0);">
<span style="font-size: 13px;">
<strong>.</strong>
Supervisor
</span>
</a>

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Thank you for the helpful answers, ironically enough although none of the posted solutions worked my problem was solved through a microsoft update that solved what was apparently a bug or strange functionality in IE that was repaired in the latest update. I can now easily launch it with a click, or fire event.

Answer 1

IE with Selenium has an annoying bug where elements won’t get clicked properly if the link element has any nested elements and no text.

For example:

<a id="clickme"><img src="something" /></a>

In IE, the following doesn’t work:

driver.FindElement(By.Id("clickme")).Click();

The workaround is to click the lowest element in the DOM tree under the link element:

driver.FindElement(By.Id("clickme")).FindElement(By.TagName("img")).Click();
//or
driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("#clickme img")).Click();