Selenium: How can I make WebDriver ignore "Element is not visible" error?

Question

I'm using Selenium WebDriver (v2.5.0). I get this error when I use a driver.click(...)" command

Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with Build info: version: '2.5.0', revision: '13516', time: '2011-08-23 18:30:44' System info: os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '2.6.38-10-generic', java.version: '1.6.0_26' Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver

In the browser when I mouse hover on an element, the element being clicked becomes visible. Is there any way to check whether something is visible or not?

Answer 1

You can do it via actions. To achieve what you want, using the Python Webdriver client, but the principle is the same.

ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(driver.find_element(By.ID, 'Foo'))\
  .click(driver.find_element(By.Name, "Bar"))\
  .perform()