self.hover_and_click() does not support xpath

[alex-pancho]

Look like self.hover_and_click() does not support xpath any way.
I try to use just

def test_sub_menu(self):
        self.get("https://www.babyshop.com")
        self.hover_and_click('//a[@data-class="babyshoes"]', '//div[@class="babyshoes mid-navigation-container"]//a')

and try

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
def test_sub_menu(self):
        self.get("https://www.babyshop.com")
        self.hover_and_click('//a[@data-class="babyshoes"]', '//div[@class="babyshoes mid-navigation-container"]//a',By.XPATH,By.XPATH)

but its function work only with css-selector

[mdmintz]

@alex-pancho Fixed in https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/releases/tag/v1.36.1

[alex-pancho]

hover_selector = 'a[data-class="babyshoes"]'
click_selector = '//div[@class="babyshoes mid-navigation-container"]/div[@class="content c-16"]/div[@class="c-8"]/ul[2]/li[1]/a'
hover_by = 'css selector', click_by = 'xpath', timeout = 6
(....)
E       selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Element {//div[@class="babyshoes mid-navigation-container"]/div[@class="content c-16"]/div[@class="c-8"]/ul[2]/li[1]/a} was not present after 6 seconds!

lib\site-packages\seleniumbase\fixtures\page_actions.py:147: NoSuchElementException

[alex-pancho]

first part automatically transfer (converted?) to css-selector but second - not yet

[alex-pancho]

May be you can try to use in code just:
driver.find_element(by, selector)

[mdmintz]

@alex-pancho I’ll do another release in the next 12 hours to fix this.

[alex-pancho]

well, look like problem with long x-path. I try use shorten xpath and all work fine:
self.hover_and_click('//a[@data-class="babyshoes"]', '//a[@href="/boots-and-winter-shoes/s/673"]')

[mdmintz]

@alex-pancho If short XPath is working, perhaps the long XPath is incorrect?

[alex-pancho]

no, I always check xpath before use. Now i'll write three different xpath for this element, and all contain one text

'//a[@href="/boots-and-winter-shoes/s/673"]'
'//*[@id="mid-navigation"]/div[9]/div/div[1]/ul[2]/li[1]/a'
'//*[@id="mid-navigation"]/div[@class="babyshoes mid-navigation-container"]//div[@class="c-8"]/ul[2]/li[1]/a'
'//div[@class="babyshoes mid-navigation-container"]/div[@class="content c-16"]/div[@class="c-8"]/ul[2]/li[1]/a'

and check result into site and Google-chome console:

[alex-pancho]

first two work , 3 and 4 - does not. May be its because (3,4) xpath contain sub-attributes inside (its first what i can find)

[mdmintz]

The hover selectors that are XPath get converted to CSS Selector first, but the click selectors stay as XPath for the Selenium click operation. Maybe it is due to the sub-attributes of the XPath. I'm still looking into it. It'll be easier to debug from a full example, such as the one you gave when you opened the issue. If the shorter XPath works for you, is that enough of a solution?

[alex-pancho]

if sub-attributes was supported - it was better

[allandsouza]

So, its not necessarily hover_and_click() that's impacted. For me, slow_click() stopped working on updating to 1.36.1. In general, I feel all methods using xpath selector with sub-attributes would be impacted

self.slow_click("//span[@title='Close popup']", by=By.XPATH)

Its definitely some change in the newer seleniumbase version that broke this, since going back to 1.34.18, the above code works fine.

I haven't gotten to determining the exact change causing this, but for now, will workaround by changing the selector.

[mdmintz]

@alex-pancho @allandsouza Hopefully fixed now in https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/releases/tag/v1.36.2

[allandsouza]

Worked for me. Thank you @mdmintz

[mdmintz]

@alex-pancho Did you get a chance to try the latest version of SeleniumBase? Others have tried it and it resolved their XPath issue.