In selenium web driver API - Mouse Hover Actions function

To perform a 'mouse hover' action in selenium web driver API, we define to chain all of the actions that we want to find  in one go so move to the element that which already has sub elements and click on the child item. It is the same way that we are doing normally to click on a sub menu item.

With the help of actions object you should move the menu title, and then move to the sub menu item and click on it.

Below is the sample automation script  to perform Mouse hover action

ie 1:

Actions actions = new Actions(driver);

WebElement mainMenu = driver.findElement(By.linkText("menulink"));

actions.moveToElement(mainMenu);

WebElement subMenu = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("subLinklocator"));

actions.moveToElement(subMenu);

actions.click().build().perform();

ie 2:

Actions action = new Actions(webdriver);

WebElement mainMenutest = webdriver.findElement(By.linkText("MainMenu"));

action.moveToElement(mainMenutest).moveToElement(webdriver.findElement(By.xpath("submenuxpath"))).click().build().perform();

There are such a cases where you may just want to mouse hover on particular element and check if the button state or color is changing after mouse hover.

Check below is the good example

WebElement searchButton = driver.findElement(By.id("searchbtn"));

Actions action = new Actions(driver);

action.moveToElement(searchButton).perform();