Suggestions for getting Selenium to play nice with Bootstrap modal fade?

Question

I\'m working to live life the BDD way. I\'m using Cucumber (with Selenium) and happen to be using Twitter Bootstrap modals in my application.

While running Cucumber tes

Answer 1

I did a quick test with inserting a WebDriverWait that takes a look at the opacity of the modal. It seems to work, but time will tell as (at least for me) it's an intermittent problem. Here's my implementation in Java.

//Ensure the modal is done animating
new WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(
    new ExpectedCondition() {
        @Override
        public Boolean apply(WebDriver webDriver) {         
            return webDriver.findElement(By.id("videoModal")).getCssValue("opacity").equals("1");
        }
    }
);