Using Capybara and Selenium to hover over an element

Question

I have a link on a page which only appears when hovering over a certain element. But I can't figure out how to emulate this and then click on the link so I can cucumber test it using Capybara and Selenium.

Anyone know how to do this? I've tried executing javascript and and also trying to talk to the selenium driver directly but so far I'm not having much luck...

Answer 1

This question is a few years old, so the answer might have changed. In newer versions of Capybara there are a few different ways to do it, depending on the driver you're using.

For selenium, you can execute javascript:

page.execute_script '$("#element").trigger("mouseover")'

Newer versions of selenium-webdriver support a hover method:

find('#element').hover

For capybara-webkit, the driver supports triggering events on the element:

find('#element').trigger(:mouseover)

I originally found the answer to this question from here and here.