Hover over on element and wait with Selenium WebDriver using Java

You can't rely on sleeps so you should try this:

WebElement myDynamicElement = (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10))  .until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("myDynamicElement")));

You have a plenty of methods in the ExpectedConditions class.

Here is some info:

• http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp

• http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/support/ui/ExpectedConditions.html

Hope you find this useful.

Seems at the point I was at the method just was not waiting long enough for the text to become visible. Adding a simple sleep function to the end of it was exactly what I needed.

@When("^I hover over menu item \"(.*)\"$")public void I_hover_over_menu_item(String menuItem){    WebDriver driver = getWebDriver();    By by = By.xpath("//*[@pageid='" + menuItem + "']");    Actions action = new Actions(driver);    WebElement elem = driver.findElement(by);    action.moveToElement(elem);    action.perform();    this.sleep(2);}public void sleep(int seconds) {    try {        Thread.sleep(seconds * 1000);    } catch (InterruptedException e) {    }}

Hope that helps others in a similar bind!

Cheers!

I also have a problem similar with you.

I have solved it.

Yes, I think we can insert delay or use a function, (...).findElements(...).size() , for a better performance. If the result of the function is not 0, then we can click or do else to the element.

According to "https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/GettingStarted" and "WebDriver: check if an element exists?", we can insert delay and use the function to determine the existence of the element we wanted.

// Sleep until the div we want is visible or 5 seconds is over    long end = System.currentTimeMillis() + 5000;    while (System.currentTimeMillis() < end) {        List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.id("btn"));        // If results have been returned, the results are displayed in a drop down.        if (elements.size() != 0) {          driver.findElement(By.id("btn")).click();           break;        }    }

Wait until the element wanted is shown or time is up~!