How to Work with Hovers

Intro

If you need to work with mouse hovers in your tests, it might not be obvious how to do this with Selenium. A quick search through the official Selenium documentation can also be confusing, and might leave you scouring online forums and search engines for the solution.

A Solution

The most popular use case for a hover action is to display additional menu options(submenu.)

By leveraging Selenium's Action Builder we can handle more complex user interactions like hovers. This is done by telling Selenium which element we want to move the mouse to, and then performing what we need to after.

About The Author

Dave Haeffner is the original writer of Elemental Selenium -- a free, once weekly Selenium tip newsletter that's read by thousands of testing professionals. He also created and maintains the-internet (an open-source web app that's perfect for writing automated tests against).

Dave has helped numerous companies successfully implement automated acceptance testing; including The Motley Fool, ManTech International, Sittercity, and Animoto. He is also an active member of the Selenium project and has spoken at numerous conferences and meetups around the world about automated acceptance testing.