Clicking on an element in robot framework is not working in IE but its working fine in Chrome Firefox

Question

Clicking on the Element is not working in Robot Framework. In the log.html, it shows that it clicked on the element, but it does not actually happen in the browser.

The element which I want to click is:

<a href="http://www.twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Orange%20named%20a%20Top%20Employer%20Global%202018%20for%203rd%20consecutive%20year&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fintegration-ruby.proj.620nm.com%2Fen%2Fblogs%2Forange-named-top-employer-global-2018-3rd-consecutive-year&amp;via=orangebusiness" class="share-button-twitter" target="_blank" title="Share on twitter">
        <span class="fa-lg fa-stack text_black"> <i class="fa fa-circle-thin fa-stack-2x"></i> <i class="fa fa-twitter fa-stack-1x"></i> </span>
    </a>

I run my test using:

Execute JavaScript    document.querySelector(".share-button-twitter").click()
Execute JavaScript    document.querySelector('a[title="Share on twitter"]').click()
Execute JavaScript    document.querySelector(".fa-lg fa-stack text_black").click()
Click Link  //a[@title="Share on twitter"]
Click Element    //i[@class="fa fa-twitter fa-stack-1x"]
Click Element    //span[@class="fa-lg fa-stack text_black"]

The element is visible in the page, and the script works fine in Chrome and Firefox I find this essue with the browser IE.

What can be the reason for this? Any idea to solve the problem?

Comments

You can try below code for Robot

Press Key    //i[@class="fa fa-twitter fa-stack-1x"]    \\13

Make sure you've 4 spaces after "Press Key" and 4 after the locator

It worked for me in IE

Answer 1

The only solution to this problem is: Update your Internet Explorer to the latest version. Also download the appropriate supported version of IEDriver for that version of IE. The problem is only here, and no where else. Nothing is wrong with the code and that is evident from the execution on Chrome & Firefox.

Answer 2

Hello,

i have the same problem , did u find the solution ?

thanks.

Comments

Hi Miya, I got a workaround for this kind of problems, as suggested by @nsv999 I updated my IE browser to the latest version. Also I used thread.sleep() and webdriver.wait() methods to let the elements load properly before performing actions on them like click element.

Answer 3

public class SiblingAndParentInXpath {

    @Test

    public void testSiblingAndParentInXpath(){

    	WebDriver driver;
    	String driverPath = "C:\\geckodriver.exe";
    	System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", driverPath);
        driver = new FirefoxDriver();        
        
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.get("https://www.acerdentalct.com/");

Comments

public class SiblingAndParentInXpath {

    @Test

    public void testSiblingAndParentInXpath(){

    	WebDriver driver;
    	String driverPath = "C:\\geckodriver.exe";
    	System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", driverPath);
        driver = new FirefoxDriver();        
        
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.get("facebook.com");