Selenium WebDriver Click() fails with IE9

Question

(I\'ve looked at many other similar posts on SO and have unfortunately not been able to solve this problem, so here goes...)

I\'m using Selenium WebDriver (C# implementa

Answer 1

I had this problem. I can't remember the post where I found the resolution but I found that the following worked for me:

On a button:

  var navButton = driver.FindElement(By.Id("NavButton"));
 ((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("arguments[0].fireEvent('onclick');", navButton);

Works every time.

I was also having problems sending the click event to a table row. Sometimes the .Click() would actually send the event to the row above (we have a horribly complicated table structure which has a hidden radio button within it which is also not clickable with Selenium). The above hack wouldn't work with cells that were accessible through a FindElement.

In the end the only thing that worked was to select the image within that row and send the click to that.

var img = driver.FindElement(By.Id("fim{4C3DE9FA-45B0-40E0-BD95-9EE0374EA38A}"));
((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("arguments[0].fireEvent('onclick');", img);

Hope that helps.