Element click not functioning properly using selenium in IE 10

Question

I am trying to automate a website using selenium in IE 10. The site opens fine however when I want to click on a element(button) it finds the element and clicks on it as well however the elements state(button name changing) which needs to be changed doesn't change.

Here is my code.

   File file = new File("D:/IEDriverServer.exe");
   System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", file.getAbsolutePath() );

   DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
   capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS,
   true); 

   WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(capabilities);
   driver.get("http://www.midomi.com");
   driver.findElement(By.id("searchMovielanding")).click();

I tried on two machines. On one machine the code ran properly and on another the dont see the click event changing the element state. I checked for the element on the webpage and found it however dont know why it is not clicking it properly on one machine.

  if(driver.findElements(By.id("searchMovielanding")).size() != 0) {
 System.out.println("Element Found");
 }

Any help to resolve this appreciated.

Answer 1

Try the below.

driver.findElement(By.id("searchMovielanding")).sendKeys(KEYS.ENTER);

In IE, some times click does not work.

Answer 2

This is actually a defect in the Selenium InternetExplorerDriver and they are not currently planning to address it. The link also has some suggested workarounds. However they did not work too well for me. I'll update if I can find anything. https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=4403