Link accessed thru selenium works in Chrome but not in IE?

Question

I have encountered an issue for UI elements on IE browser. The link doesn’t respond to Selenium click commands. The same commands works fine on chrome browser.

I have used Actions also, but same problem it's not identifying the element.

code:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@href, '#cwt_services')]"));

Actions action = new Actions(driver);

action.moveToElement(element).perform();

WebElement subElement = driver.findElementByXPath("//*[@id=\"yui-gen4\"]/a");

action.moveToElement(subElement);

action.click();

action.perform();

Image of the code:

Please help me how to handle this scenarios on IE browser.

Answer 1

If you add a 5 second pause (for investigation purpose ONLY - remove after investigation) does it help at all with the issue?
If so u have a timing issue and will probably want a polling (explicit) wait on the element

Answer 2

You can find that element by using two more methods if this is not working. Try using CSS selectors or using a tag name a, because XPath doesn't work always.

Also, I assume that you have put these lines in your code:

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", 
                   "pathofchromedriver\\IEDriverServer.exe");