How to hover over an item avoiding a click on it using Selenium and C#

Question

I have a problem, I want to hover over a certain button (to develop) but I don't want to click it, I don't know how to do it. when I click this button, it takes me to another place and I don't want it

 private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { string url = textBox1.Text; driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(url); Thread.Sleep(2000); driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//button[@id='onetrust-accept-btn-handler']")).Click(); Thread.Sleep(3000); driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[normalize-space()='Mój OLX']")).Click(); Thread.Sleep(2000); driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//section[@class='login-page has-animation']//input[@id='userEmail']")).SendKeys("[email protected]"); Thread.Sleep(3000); driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@id='userPass']")).SendKeys("Anastazja12345"); driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//section[@class='login-page has-animation']//button[@id='se_userLogin']")).Click(); Thread.Sleep(3000); driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[@class='css-1povu0j']")); //driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[normalize-space()='Wyloguj']")).Click(); //driver.FindElement(By.XPath("")).Click(); } 

Answer 1

To hover over a certain button but to avoid clicking it you have to induce WebDriverWait for the desired ElementIsVisible() and the use Actions Class methods as follows:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5)); var element = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementIsVisible(By.XPath("//a[normalize-space()='Wyloguj']"))); Actions action = new Actions(driver); action.MoveToElement(element).Perform(); 

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References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• Scrape website with dynamic mouseover event
• How to mouse hover using java through selenium-webdriver and Java

Answer 2

You can use the Action after you find the element you want to hover

 var element = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[@class='css-1povu0j']")); Actions action = new Actions(driver); action.MoveToElement(element).Perform();