Use of 'ClickAt ' selenium comand

Question

I'm confuse with the difference between 'Click' & 'ClickAt' command in selenium. & need to know where i can use 'ClickAt' command ?

Answer 1

Hi,

Here are what Selenium IDE says about those two commands :

click(locator)
Arguments:

• locator : an element locator

Clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the click action causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call waitForPageToLoad.

And :

clickAt(locator, coordString)
Arguments:

• locator : an element locator
• coordString : specifies the x,y position (i.e. - 10,20) of the mouse event relative to the element returned by the locator.

Clicks on a link, button, checkbox or radio button. If the click action causes a new page to load (like a link usually does), call waitForPageToLoad.

click is used when you just want to "click" on an element, like a button, a link, ...

And clickAt is used when you want to "click" on a position designated by mouse coordinates.

I suppose the second one can be useful for some "rich" applications -- I've actually never used it... On the other hand, I use click like all the time.

If you have a page with form elements, links, buttons, and stuff like that, you'll probably generally use click : it's way easier to find an element using it's id or classname than having to find it's position in pixels on the page ^^

Answer 2

I'm testing a GWT application and it seems like I have to use clickAt if I want to click on a node in a tree widget.

Answer 3

I noticed some differences between click() and clickAt() when testing a ExtJS app. For example, if I try to click a tab in a Ext.TabPanel, click() command does not work, although I provide it with an correct xpath, and clickAt() works fine. Code looks like this:

click("//li[@id='tab-panel-id__second-tab-id']/a[2]/em/span/span")

doesn't work, but

clickAt("//li[@id='tab-panel-id__second-tab-id']/a[2]/em/span/span","0,0")

works. Notice that coordinates are (0,0)

I can't figure out why this happens...

Answer 4

if you are using IE then have to use clickAT.

Answer 5

Why do you have to use clickAt for IE??