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Selenium Webdriver with Java - Click on an hyperlinked Dropdown Container

I need to click on an element inside a Dropdown container. I've tried several searchs but I haven't been able to find the correct solution. The select method doesn't work, and I still don't know how to work with Selectors when there's no ID, Name or Class related to it. Here's the HTML code:
Account<span class="caret"></span>
<div class="account-dropdown__container">
<ul>
<li>Account</li>
<li>Invite Friends</li>
<li>Zola Store Credit</li>
<li>Registry Settings</li>
<li>Orders You've Placed</li>
<li><a>Log out</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
The first piece of code is a button, but if I put my mouse over it, it will show the Dropdown container that I am talking about. If I put my mouse over it without clicking, it will show the list of the Dropdown Container. (And I would also like to know how to hover an element to show the list without clicking it, because its hidden).
My question is, then: how can I click on Registry Settings?
It doesn't have an ID, nor a class (although it is inside the class account-dropdown__container). I think I can use By.name("Registry Settings"), but since is not visible unless the Dropdown list is open, it won't click and it will show Css Selector not found error. Care to help? Thanks!
Also, I am using Cucumber + Selenium + Java in IntelliJ IDEA, the synthaxis changes just a bit, but it is still different from the codes I tend to find in this forum. Hence, why I am asking for a specific solution to my problem.

You have to make the dropdown visible first.
As in Selenium you can't just hover an element, you will have to do it all in one go.
Check this: How to perform mouseover function in Selenium WebDriver using Java?
Actions action = new Actions(webdriver);
WebElement button = webdriver.findElement(By.class("account-link"));
action.moveToElement(button).moveToElement(webdriver.findElement(By.linkText("Registry Settings")).click().build().perform();
You may have to wait in between for the dropdown to appear. I have not tested the code, you will probably have to fix it before it works.

As you have mentioned when you put your mouse over to a button, it will show the Dropdown container.
Same can be automated with the help of selenium like this : (I am assuming account is a button )
Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.linkText("Account"))).build().perform();
Now your drop-down is expanded or visible in UI, and you want to click on Registry Settings . Since your drop down is not made using Select options tags which are available in HTML. You can't use Select class from Selenium.
You will have to store every elements which are present in drop down to a list. and then based on some condition , you can click on your desire element.
Code:
List<WebElement> options = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector("div.account-dropdown__container ul li"));
for(WebElement option : options) {
if(option.getText().trim().contains("Registry Settings")) {
option.click();
}
}
Hope this will help.

Issue with focus in ie browser using selenium webdriver code

Firstly i need to mouse over and then it opens a drop down then i will click on that link.Its working fine in firefox,chrome and issue is in ie.
Here is the code
WebElement element=driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/span/form[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/ul/span[3]/li/a"));
Actions act=new Actions(driver);
act.moveToElement(element).build().perform();
WebElement element2=driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/span/form[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/ul/span[3]/li/ul/span[1]/li/a"));
Actions act1=new Actions(driver);
//act1.click(element2);
act1.moveToElement(element2).click(element2).build().perform();
It works even in IE browser, when we use this piece of code
caps.setCapability("requireWindowFocus", true);
If we use requiredwindow focus its working fine even in IE browser so no issues with locators
But am not encouraged to use above requiredwindowfoucs code in my project.
Is there any other way to do it.
The issue in Ie browser when we are not using requiredwindowfocus, it is clicking on some other link, so am assuming the problem is with focus.
so kindly help me with this issue without using requiredfoucswindow

I have has similar issues in my project. In IE, clicking drop down values does not work. I have a pretty weird and unexpected solution for this. Find the element before performing the operations. I am assuming that this is required because when you move to element1 and when trying to find element the IE Xpath processor messes up the focus.
WebElement element=driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/span/form[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/ul/span[3]/li/a"));
WebElement element2=driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/span/form[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/ul/span[3]/li/ul/span[1]/li/a"));
Actions act=new Actions(driver);
act.moveToElement(element).build().perform();
act.moveToElement(element2).click(element2).build().perform();
Please try this and let me know if this works for you too!!
Also, consider using relative XPaths instead of the absolute XPaths you have used. The second Action is not required. One action should do the trick.
EDIT Based on user comment
Move to element1 is working and the list is getting displayed. So I am assuming that element2 is visible and so we can directly click on it without using the Actions class
Actions act=new Actions(driver);
act.moveToElement(element).build().perform();
element2.click();

How can i select text from browser screen with help of mouse events in selenium?

I am trying to select text which is already present on the browser.
I want to select that particular text and perform right click operation on it.
However, the page on the browser has disabled right click.
How can I select text in such situation?

Using a normal web browser without Selenium the only workaround that I can think about is to disable javascript to stop the script that prevents you from right clicking. So it should also work with a browser controlled by Selenium Webdriver.
I don't know if it will be OK for you because your website may be relying on javascript for essential features.
However if you don't need Javascript for your Selenium test you can try the following when you launch your driver :
FirefoxProfile p = new FirefoxProfile();
p.setPreference("javascript.enabled", false);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(p);
I assume that you already know how to perform a right click because your question was only about dealing with the problem preventing you from doing this right click. But if not, you can also refer to this answer :
Select an Option from the Right-Click Menu in Selenium Webdriver - Java
Edit:
I'm sorry I really thought you could use Selenium actions to select the text you want but after some tests I didn't manage to perform a click and drag to select a text. The only thing that works for me in Chrome or Firefox is the following. It looks for a <p>which contains some text and then perform a double click to select a word.
driver.get("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)");
WebElement text = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//p[contains(text(),'Java is')]"));
Actions select = new Actions(driver);
select.doubleClick(text).build().perform();
However it only highlighs one word in the html element that contains your text, so it's not really convenient.
I've also tried to do Ctrl+F and type the text so that the web browser automatically select it but the browser doesn't do anything when executing :
Actions search = new Actions(driver);
search .sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,"+f")).sendKeys("Java is").build().perform();
It seems that Selenium can only send keys events to the html elements and not to the browser (in the case of ctrl+F).
I don't really see a solution for now, let's see if someone else can find a workaround. It's an interesting issue, it would also be useful for me to select a text the way you described

Move to middle of the element
Actions builder = new Actions(webDriverObject);
builder.moveToElement(element).build().perform();
Move to starting of element, click and hold, move to end
Integer width = element.getSize().getWidth();
Actions newBuilder = new Actions(webDriverObject);
newBuilder.moveByOffset(width/2,0).clickAndHold.moveByOffset(width,0).release().build().perform();

Click on element does not produce expected outcome using selenium webdriver

First the specs, I am writing Selenium Webdriver tests in java for an application written largely in ExtJS and running on the firefox browser v14. The interesting thing is that Selenium can find the element that I want to click, but the click does not seem to be executed or if it is getting executed the desired outcome (a popup appearing) does not happen. I have also verified in Selenium IDE that the element I am looking for (a span element that I locate via Xpath) exists, but in Selenium IDE I run into the same issue of not being able to click on it.
If I manually click on the button the popup window appears asking for what file I want to upload. I have also tried other elements such as the span's parent 'button' element and parent 'em' element and parent 'div' element all with no luck.
What kills me is that I have been writing Selenium Tests for this application for weeks now and always been able to use this method to click on buttons and for this particular button it no longer works.
WebElement uploadButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[contains(text(), 'Upload Popup')]"));
uploadButton.click();
Edit 1: Thought that the code of the button itself might help
<button id="filefield-1158-buttonEl-btnEl" class="x-btn-center" autocomplete="off" role="button" hidefocus="true" type="button" style="background-color: transparent;">
Note the id is the dynamic id created by ExtJS

It can be because of lots of reasons. I would suggest that you debug while your test is running.
It is possible to install FireBug in your Selenium Firefox instance:
File file = new File("firebug-1.8.1.xpi");
FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile = new FirefoxProfile();
firefoxProfile.addExtension(file);
firefoxProfile.setPreference("extensions.firebug.currentVersion", "1.8.1"); // Avoid startup screen
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(firefoxProfile);
I assume you can launch your test via JUnit (in an IDE like Eclipse). Launch your test in debug mode and set a breakpoint just before clicking on the button. Inspect the html code via FireBug then. It might give you a start.
Another posibility is to select the button by css class (By.className) or selector (By.cssSelector):
WebElement uploadButton = driver.findElement(By.className("x-btn-center"));
uploadButton.click();
If there are multiple buttons on the page you would have to use
List<WebElement> buttons = driver.findElements(By.className("x-btn-center"));
WebElement uploadButton = buttons.get(index);
uploadButton.click();

Try this out:
driver.findElements(By.xpath("//button[#class='x-btn-center']").click()
or
driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[#class='x-btn-center']").click()

Workarounds for Selenium not clicking button with InternetExplorerDriver

I've got a button on a webpage that Webdriver will not click when I'm running via IE - I've tried the below workarounds but no luck -
Clicking via Javascript:
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("$(arguments[0]).click()", webElement)
Using SendKeys:
webElement.SendKeys(keys.Enter)
Using the Action Builder
Actions test = new Actions(driver);
test.moveToElement(webElement);
test.clickAndHold();
test.release();
test.build();
test.perform();
Making sure the window is the active one, then clicking on the parent object, then the object itself
Problem is, none of them work. I've checked in Firefox and Chrome and the script runs fine. I've confirmed that the element is being found when using IE. Are there any other workarounds I can try?

Seems you are tyring to use JQuery style click... normal javascript style click should work.
Try this:
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].click();", webElement)
I always found successful with the following for clicking an element in IE.
If is a checkbox/radio: webElement.click();
Clickable input element: webElement.sendKeys("\n");
For other elements, use the above said JS style click.

If the button is a form submit button, you can use : webElement.submit() on another field of the form.