I am using Behat for testing, with the ZombieJS driver, and everything is working very well so far, but there is one thing that bothers me, I can't seem to figure out how to get Behat to simulate a click on a non-link element. I guess this comes from Mink being a "cross-browser" driver, and it doesn't really make sense to click on non-link elements. For my use case though, I need it, because there are several elements on the page that have javascript event listeners attached to them, and I want to test these functionalities.
I tried using
Then I follow "div.sa"
But it fails with the expected error:
01. Link with id|title|alt|text "div.sa" not found.
Since it's not a link element. There is a similar step in Behat:
I press "button.class"
But this one is only for buttons.
Is there a way I could get Behat click on elements that are not tags?
With some error handling:
/** Click on the element with the provided xpath query
*
* @When /^(?:|I )click on the element "([^"]*)"$/
*/
public function iClickOnTheElement($locator)
{
$session = $this->getSession(); // get the mink session
$element = $session->getPage()->find('css', $locator); // runs the actual query and returns the element
// errors must not pass silently
if (null === $element) {
throw new \InvalidArgumentException(sprintf('Could not evaluate CSS selector: "%s"', $locator));
}
// ok, let's click on it
$element->click();
}