Selenium Webdriver cannot locate element for right click event

Question

Hi Guys. I have a problem with right click mouse event in Selenium 2.0. I'm using that method but in a console I've got:

Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"dijit_MenuItem_16_text"}

In my test case I've got

opPage.findElem("xpath element to I click on it").click();
opPage.rightClickOnAsset("xpath to element what is show after I right click mouse");

where the last method is defined as follows:

public WebElement rightClickOnAsset() {
  WebElement propButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath element to I click on it"));
  Actions clicker = new Actions(driver);
  clicker.contextClick(propButton).perform(); 

  return propButton;
}

Method is in another class in another Java file, look up the topic.

Answer 1

This worked for me to right click on a row in table.

//Selecting all cells of the HTML table
List<WebElement> elementNumList=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//a[@id='elemnetId']"));

//Taking 1st cell
WebElement link=elementNumList.get(0);

//Right Clicking
new Actions(driver).contextClick(link).perform();

Answer 2

Method 1 (Using Webdriver Context Click)

// get web element
WebElement elem = By.id(selector);

//move mouse to element, then perform right click
Actions actions = new Actions(webdriver);
actions.moveToElement(elem);
actions.contextClick(elem);
actions.perform();

Method 2 (Using Java Robot to trigger right click event)

// get web element
 WebElement elem = By.id(selector);

//move mouse to element, 
Actions actions = new Actions(webdriver);
actions.moveToElement(elem);
actions.perform();

//then perform right click using ROBOT
    Robot robot = new Robot();
    robot.mousePress(InputEvent.BUTTON3_MASK);
    robot.mouseRelease(InputEvent.BUTTON3_MASK);

Answer 3

More detail on my comment above. I do use the ContextClick but because of the new window I have to up popupHandle to deal with the results of the right click:

// Get the existing handles
IList<string> existingHandles = this.driver.WindowHandles;
// This is an internal class that uses Context Click to perform the Right Click
Actions clicker = new Actions(driver);
clicker.ContextClick(testUserAccount).Perform();
// Now select the item in the Menu that displays all info for the User
IWebElement showUserInfo = driver.FindElement(By.Id("menu_ID"));
// The rest of this would be for the right click options
showUserInfo.Click();
// Check for the launched window and save the new handle
string popupHandle = myConfig.findNewHandle(existingHandles, driver);
// Once the Window opens set focus on the order Window
driver.SwitchTo().Window(popupHandle);

Where findNewHandle is a separate function:

public string findNewHandle(IList<string> existingHandles, IWebDriver driver)
{
    var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20));

    // Check for the launched window and save the new handle
    string f = wait.Until<string>((d) =>
    {
        d = driver;
        string foundHandle = null;
        IList<string> differentHandles = getDifference(existingHandles, d.WindowHandles);
        if (differentHandles.Count > 0)
        {
            foundHandle = differentHandles[0];
        }
        return foundHandle;
    });
    return f;
}

For me, I couldn't do anything with the right click context until I was able to find and make active the window the right click brought up.