How to use Selenium ClickAt Command

Folks nowadays I'm working on automation and open source tool selenium is been used. Frankly speaking, tool is awesome but still it has some loop holes, workarounds need to be done to get work done. I was trying to click on the rows on the grid and took me 2 hours to figure out how to do.

Here with an example I will tell how and what needs to be done.

Problem description: You had a grid with rows have values and need to click on the basis of values.

Grid looks like this.

abc	Some-Description1	Date1	Comments1
def	Some-Description2	Date2	Comments2
ghi	Some-Description3	Date3	Comments3
jkl	Some-Description4	Date4	Comments4
mno	Some-Description5	Date5	Comments5
pqr	Some-Description6	Date6	Comments6

Now, the requirement says, click on ghi which might open another window. (How to capture the window is not dealt here). When recording from selenium IDE, gave me click command with some XPATH but when I ran same command from IDE, it wasn't working at all.



Solution: Use clickAt(String locator, String co-ordinates)



Selenium IDE do not records clickAt(this was the catch here). I changed click to clickAt and it worked perfectly fine.



so command becomes :



selenium.clickAt("//div[contains(text(),\"ghi\")]","");

locator = "//div[contains(text(),\"ghi\")]"

co-ordinates = ""

This command says, click at the link (given by the XPATH) which has text ghi with no co-ordinates.



Same way to click on grid abc =



selenium.clickAt("//div[contains(text(),\"abc\")]","");