Cucumber and Capybara, clicking a non-link or button element
You can click on an element via Capybara::Element.click. I add the following for this in my web_steps.rb to click on divs.
When /^(?:|I )click within "([^"]*)"$/ do |selector| find(selector).clickendThere is also Element.trigger('mouseover') which appears to enable hover albeit not working with Selenium.
It is also very likely you will need to decorate your feature/scenario with Capybara's provided @javascript tag.
Besides being able to click on button elements like @Jim Mitchener explained, you can also click on a part of a text in the following way:
# WhenI click on the text "Sign in"When(/^I click on text "(.*?)"$/) do |text| click_text(text)enddef click_text(text) elem = find(:xpath, "//*[contains(translate(text(), '#{text.upcase}', '#{text.downcase}'), '#{text.downcase}')]", match: :first, wait: false) scroll_to(elem, -200) elem.clickendThis helper function does the same thing as find(selector).click, it finds the text element.
I found this article very good, it explains different types of steps you can write in cucumber.