How to perform mouse hovering in Selenium WebDriver Java

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I wanna hover the mouse over a drop down menu. When I do that, it does show the new options to select from, but when I tried to click those options using xpath, I'm unable to do it. So, as an alternative, I'm manually hovering over the drop down menu and then clicking those options. Below is my code

Actions action = new Actions(webdriver);
WebElement element = webdriver.findElement(By.xpath("//html/body/div[13]/ul/li[4]/a"));
action.moveToElement(element).build().perform();
Apr 3, 2018 in Selenium by nitinrawat895
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You many not actually be able to hover the mouse rightaway. Instead, you might have to chain all the actions together. So, first hover to the element that reveals the others (dropdown), then during the same chain, move to the visible element you want to click and simply click on it. 

So, when your working with Action Chains, you need to remember to 'do it like a user would'.

Actions action = new Actions(webdriver);
WebElement element = webdriver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[13]/ul/li[4]/a"));
action.moveToElement(element).moveToElement(webdriver.findElement(By.xpath("/expression-here"))).click().build().perform();


Hope this helps!

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answered Apr 3, 2018 by nsv999
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edited Aug 22, 2023 by Khan Sarfaraz
Is it possible without the action class?
It is done in a convenient way using the action class.
This solution does not work for me, I get this error: javascript error: Failed to execute 'elementsFromPoint' on 'Document': The provided double value is non-finite.
Hey @janiemar, could you please specify when exactly are you getting this error? could you share the code snippet as well?
Did you find solution for  javascript error: Failed to execute 'elementsFromPoint' on 'Document': The provided double value is non-finite.
Hi @VK, can you please share your error logs?
What forge viewer are you using @VK?

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