Question

My list is nested under two headers and I don’t know how to access them via watir since the style, display is set to “none” until a “hover” event occurs. And the class isn’t defined until a hover/mousveover either.

b.link(:text, /Assessments/).fire_event('onmouseover')

will open the initial drop-down. I have no idea how to access the elements in the “sub-level”

Variations on the following are rejected by watir:

b.link(:class, "sub-level").click
b.link(:class, "sub-level").fire_event('onmouseover')
b.link(:class, "sub-level").fire_event('hover')

Watir::Exception::UnknownObjectException: unable to locate element, using {:class=>"sub-level", :tag_name=>"a"}

I’ve been running this through IRB for quick testing of each new line I add to my script. If this is incorrect, I would appreciate any advice.

<li class="top-level">
<a class="" href="#">
Assessments&nbsp;&nbsp;
<img id="lfArrowImg" style="border:0px;" src="https://test.com/top/images/global_nav_downArrow.gif">
</a>
  <ul style="z-index: 1045; display: none;">
  <li class="sub-level">
     <a class="">
     Assessments
     <div id="menugroup" class="dr-menu-node dr-menu-node-icon rich-menu-item-folder rich-menu-group-folder"></div>
     </a>
  <ul style="z-index: 1068; display: none;">    
  <li class="sub-level">
     <a class="" href="http://test.com/content/aa/assessment/index.xhtml">Main</a>
  </li>
  <li class="sub-level">
  <li class="sub-level">
</ul>
</li>

Thanks,
Damien

Answer 1

The error is correct since you have no link tag in that code with a class of sub-level. The things with that class are li (List Item) elements which contain link elements (aka ‘anchor’ hence the a tag)

Try something like this (depending on which link you want to click)

browser.li(:class => 'sub-level', :text => 'Assessments').link.click
browser.li(:class => 'sub-level', :text => 'Main').link.click

For more on ways to identify elements, especially if they do not have a handy ID, Class etc, see the answers to this SO question: How to get index of parent element using Watir Webdriver? and the answers (all three) to this question also: Accessing an element with no attributes in Watir