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Clicking over hidden element in Cypress is not working

I am running into this problem without finding a good solution. I tried every post that I found in Google but without success. I am isolating the problem so I can share you the exact point. I am searching an specific product in "mercadolibre.com" and I want to sort the list from the lower price to the maximum. To do so you can enter directly here and clicking over the option "Menor Precio".

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Doing manually this just works fine but with Cypress I am not being able to do that. This script just runs fine but the last step seems to have no effect.

// Activate intelligence
/// <reference types="Cypress" />

describe("Main test suite for price control", () => {
    it("search scanners and order them by ascending price", () => {
      // Web access
      cy.visitAndWait("https://listado.mercadolibre.com.ar/scanner-blueetooth#D[A:scanner%20blueetooth");

      // Order by ascending price
      cy.get(':nth-child(2) > .andes-list__item-first-column > .andes-list__item-text > .andes-list__item-primary').click({force: true})
    });
});;

Maybe Am I using a bad approach to refer the object?

Best regards!

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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You may have noticed the polite discussion about dismissing the popups, is it necessary or not.

I believe not, and to rely on dismissing the popups will give a flaky test.

I also think the issue is as @DizzyAl says, the event handler on the dropdown button is not attached until late in the page load.

This is what I tried, using retries to give a bit more time for page loading.


Cypress.on('uncaught:exception', () => false)

before(() => {
  cy.visit('http://mercadolibre.com.ar')
  cy.get(".nav-search-input").type("scanner bluetooth para auto{enter}");
  cy.get('.ui-search-result__wrapper')  // instead of cy.wait(3000), wait for the list
})

it('gets the dropdown menu on 1st retry', {retries: 2}, () => {

  // Don't dismiss the popups

  cy.get('button.andes-dropdown__trigger').click()
  cy.contains('a.andes-list__item', 'Menor precio').click()

  // page reload happens
  cy.contains('.ui-search-result__wrapper:nth-child(1)', '$490', {timeout:20000})
});
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Denunciar

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I would retry menu until options become visible

Cypress.on('uncaught:exception', () => false)

before(() => {
  cy.visit('https://listado.mercadolibre.com.ar/scanner-blueetooth#D%5BA:scanner%20blueetooth%5D') 
})

it('retries the menu open command', () => {

  function openMenu(attempts = 0) {
    if (attempts > 6) throw 'Failed open menu'

    return cy.get('button.andes-dropdown__trigger').click()
      .then(() => {
        const option = Cypress.$('.andes-list:visible') // is list visible
        if (!option.length) {
          openMenu(++attempts)  // try again, up to 6 attempts
        } 
      })
  } 

  openMenu().then(() => {
    cy.get('a.andes-list__item:contains(Menor precio)').click()
  })

  // Verification
  cy.contains('.ui-search-result__wrapper:nth-child(1)', '$490', {timeout:20000})
})
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Denunciar

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It looks like the click event is being added to the dropdown button late, and the click is failing.

See When Can The Test Start? for an discussion.

I tried to adapt the code in the article, but couldn't get it to work.

However, adding a cy.wait() or a cy.intercept() for the last network call works.

cy.intercept('POST', 'https://bam-cell.nr-data.net/events/**').as('events')
cy.visit('https://listado.mercadolibre.com.ar/scanner-blueetooth#D%5BA:scanner%20blueetooth%5D')
cy.wait('@events', {timeout: 20000})

// Page has loaded, verify the top item price
cy.contains('.ui-search-result__wrapper:nth-child(1)', '$1.385')

// Open the sort-by dropdown
cy.get('button.andes-dropdown__trigger').click()

// Choose sort-by lowest price
cy.contains('a.andes-list__item', 'Menor precio').click()

// Verify first item has different price, long timeout to wait for page re-load
cy.contains('.ui-search-result__wrapper:nth-child(1)', '$490', {timeout:20000})

You may be able to shorten the page load wait by picking a different network call to wait on.

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Denunciar
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