WebDriver Clicking button issue in IE 11

Question

Have a suite of web-drivers tests that run in chrome and IE 10, but will not run in IE 11.

The tests fail in IE-11 when clicking a button as the following action (a form popup) does not occur. I cannot repeat this manually and this only seems to happen in IE-11. No exceptions are thrown when finding the button or clicking the button. This is an intermittent error as sometimes the clicking will work and the tests will run.

I can put an explicit wait before the click(s) occur and tests will then run.

The button is always present in the DOM (not added later by javascript).

I have also added a check so that web-driver will not start interacting (clicking) with a page until after all the initial javascript has finished running on the page. This is done by the last piece of javascript setting a flag.

Has anyone had similar issues?

Edit I don't want to have waits in the test code. Just put them in to debug what was not working

Answer 1

Check this code. It works properly in IE. All you need to set some capabilities.

DesiredCapabilities ieCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();

ieCapabilities.setCapability("nativeEvents", false);    
ieCapabilities.setCapability("unexpectedAlertBehaviour", "accept");
ieCapabilities.setCapability("ignoreProtectedModeSettings", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("disable-popup-blocking", true);
ieCapabilities.setCapability("enablePersistentHover", true);

driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieCapabilities);

Answer 2

Personally I would put a wait and in the wait try to click and then verify the popup exists, catch the error and try to click and verify again. That way as soon as it's ready it will return and you aren't using a timer. That is good practice anyway to not just wait a specific time, but wait for a particular event to take place and then move on.

c#

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(Driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(time));
    var popupReady = wait.Until(d =>
        {
            try
            {
                 //click the button
                 //interact with Popup
            }
            catch
            {
                return false;
            }
        });

Answer 3

For Selenium 3.0.1, I setup as follow and it works for IE 11.

InternetExplorerOptions caps = new InternetExplorerOptions();
caps.IgnoreZoomLevel = true;
caps.EnableNativeEvents = false;
caps.InitialBrowserUrl = "http://localhost";
caps.UnexpectedAlertBehavior = InternetExplorerUnexpectedAlertBehavior.Accept;
caps.IntroduceInstabilityByIgnoringProtectedModeSettings = true;
caps.EnablePersistentHover = true;        
IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(caps);

Answer 4

I also had the same problem in clicking the segment under a page then on the elements but could not click. I have a solution that worked for me and hope the below answer will work for you as well. Add the code snippet.

DesiredCapabilities caps = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
caps.setCapability("ignoreZoomSetting", true);

// Setting attribute nativeEvents to false enable click button in IE
caps.setCapability("nativeEvents",false);
WebDriver driver = new  InternetExplorerDriver(caps);

It will disbale IE browsers native elements. As far as i know ,native elements i.e. disabling java script that usually present on the click events. Try this out and update here if anyody have better suggestions do let me know.

Answer 5

You may try to click it with JS,

JavaScriptLibrary.CallEmbeddedSelenium(driver, "triggerMouseEventAt", element, "click", "0,0");

I guess if disabling Native events brakes other parts of the test, doing clicks with js could be the workaround, It did work for me at least

Answer 6

Try next steps:

1. Open Display settings in Windows (right click on desktop, choose Display Settings)

2. Set option "Change the size of text, apps, and other items" to 100%.

After this steps, Click() method should work.

This solved my problem with Click() method.

Answer 7

I tried javascript click and it worked for me. hope it works for you all too:

WebElement we = driver....
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click();",we)

You can use this if you are trying to click on any link or button

Answer 8

One workaround would be to use Selenium with Sikuli for this test. This way you simulate a real mouse click.

http://www.devengineering.com/blog/testing/how-integrate-sikuli-script-selenium-webdriver

Sikuli is a robust and powerful tool to automate and tests user interfaces screenshots. The core of Sikuli Script is written in Java, which means you can use Sikuli Script as a standard JAVA library with Selenium. The link above shows the details on how to do this.