How to avoid MouseOver on Selenium Click()

Question

In one of my Selenium test cases, I have the problem that there are MouseOver effects that I don\'t want to have. This is what I do:

1. Click on the \"login\" but

Answer 1

As Andrew is right. If it is not happening manually then it should not happened here as well.

You can also try to click using JavascriptExecutor

WebElement element= driver.findElement(By.xpath("Your Xpath"));

JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);

Below is some example that how you can do it using C#

Execute JavaScript using Selenium WebDriver in C#

Hope it will help you :)

Answer 2

I still don't know the real solution, but here's the dirty workaround I'm using:

public static void Click(this IWebElement element, TestTarget target)
{
    if (target.IsInternetExplorer)
    {
        var actions = new Actions(target.Driver);
        actions.MoveToElement(element).Perform();
        Thread.Sleep(500); // wait for the mouseover popup to appear
        element.SendKeys(Keys.Escape); // to close the popup (if any)
        actions.MoveToElement(element).DoubleClick().Perform(); // simple click is sometimes not enough in IE
    }
    else
    {
        element.Click();
    }
}