Selenium 2.0b3 IE WebDriver, Click not firing

Question

When using the IE driver with IE9, occasionally the Click method will only select a button, it wont do the action of the Click(). Note this only happens occasionally, so i d

Answer 1

Absolutely none of the other things worked for me. Some InternetExplorerDriver click()s were working for me, some weren't. Then I discovered I had missed one line in the documentation: the browser's zoom level must be set to 100%.

I'm sure all of the other answers refer to cases where the zoom level is at 100% already, but it did fix my case. So do check that first.

Answer 2

PHPUnit + facebook / php-webdriver sometimes the function click() doesn't check checkbox element.

my solution is:

$Element = $WebDriver->findElement(
    WebDriverBy::id('checkbox_id')
);

if(false === $Element->isSelected())
{
    $Element->sendKeys(WebDriverKeys::SPACE);
}

Answer 3

I used, as workaround, SendKeys with an empty string before each Click:

element.SendKeys("");
element.Click();

Answer 4

I find the IE driver buggy and the same version of my code behaves differently on different machines with the same version of IE.

To get consistently before each action I do the following.

   driver.SwitchTo().Window(driver.CurrentWindowHandle);//Force Focus

For me this makes the IE driver behave more as expected.

Answer 5

Got the same problem, click does not work with my IE. I found a workaround where I do a Driver.FindElement(By.Name("...")).sendKeys("\n") to perform the click (basically I just press enter on the button). Not very clean but it works until the problem is fixed!

Answer 6

I resolved problem whith .click() next way. I used JS and executeScript(JS, WebElement el) instead of .click().
Example:

protected void clickForIE(WebElement element){  
        ((JavascriptExecutor)wd).executeScript("var tmp = arguments[0];
          tmp.click()", element);  
    }

But after using this method we should wait while page loading. And that's why I used next method:

protected synchronized void pageWaitLoad() {  
        String str = null;
        try {
            str = (String)((JavascriptExecutor)wd).executeScript("return document.readyState");
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
// it's need when JS isn't worked
            pageWaitLoad();
            return;
        }
        System.out.println("ttt " + str);
        while(!str.equals("complete")){
            try {
                Thread.currentThread().sleep(2000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            str = (String)((JavascriptExecutor)wd).executeScript("return document.readyState");
        }
    }

You must call pageWaitLoad() every time after clickForIE().