Webdriver Unable to click hover over button for FireFox in Java

Question

I am trying to click a hover over 'edit' button. However, I keep getting "Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with" Error when I use mouseOverElement.
Any idea on how to make it work? Thanks

< div class="editbox" >
< h2>Title< /h2>
  < ul>
    < li >
       < small class="editlinks" >
            < a class="edit" href="#">Edit< / a >
       < /small>
     < strong> Content
    < /li>
  < /ul>
< /div>

Here is my code:

Approach 1:

WebElement textArea = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.editbox ul li"));
WebElement button = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.editbox ul li small.editlinks a.edit"));
Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
builder.moveToElement(textArea).build().perform();
timer.wait(5000);
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.editbox ul li small.editlinks a.edit")).clik();

Approach 2:

Actions builder = new Actions(driver);
builder.moveToElement(textArea);
timer.wait(5000);
builder.click(button);
builder.build().perform();

asgoth asgoth · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-08T22:10:11

I'm using to following code to hover over an element:

if (element instanceof Locatable) {
    Locatable hoverItem = (Locatable) element;
    hoverItem.getLocationOnScreenOnceScrolledIntoView();
    Mouse mouse = ((HasInputDevices) webDriver).getMouse(); 
    mouse.mouseMove(hoverItem.getCoordinates());
}

Try if it works.

I'm not sure you can click on that li element, since it is invisible. Shouldn't you hover your link (a tag)?

Webdriver Unable to click hover over button for FireFox in Java

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