Using xpath value in selenium web driver in perl

[Shaveta_Chawla]

Hi, I have a cutton with xpath as below:
id('GoAheadAndLogIn')
I am using below code :

$driver->find_element("//input[\@id='GoAheadAndLogIn']");
$driver->mouse_move_to_location(element => $elem, xoffset => 0, yoffse
+t => 0);  
$driver->click;

but selenium web driver displays the error that the element could not be located. Please suggest how to use xpath value for clickable item.

[choroba]

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[Anonymous Monk]

What does find_element() return?

What is  $elem and where does it come from?

[Shaveta_Chawla]

The complete code is as follows:

use Selenium::Remote::Driver;


my $driver = new Selenium::Remote::Driver();

$driver->get('some url');
$driver->find_element("//input[\@name='login']")->send_keys('username'
+);
$driver->find_element("//input[\@name='password']")->send_keys('passwo
+rd');
my $elem = $driver->find_element("//input[\@id='GoAheadAndLogIn']");
$driver->mouse_move_to_location(element => $elem, xoffset => 0, yoffse
+t => 0);  
$driver->click;

[redgreen]

In the past I have found the FirePath add-on for Firebug an excellent way to test XPath expressions.

[sundialsvc4]

An “interactive XPath tester” such as the one at http://http://www.xpathtester.com/ is a very valuable tool.   Extract the actual stream that you’re getting from the host, paste it into the appropriate window, then try your expression against it.   Good thing to have on your browser’s bookmarks-bar.