Selenium Click with x and y coordinates

[arya6000]

Hello

I'm trying out Selenium for the first time and on one of the pages there is a javascript button that I want to click using x and y coordinates. I read the documentation on this link http://search.cpan.org/~lukec/Test-WWW-Selenium-1.18/lib/WWW/Selenium.pm but did not figure out how to give it x and y coordinates, in the examples it says to use the following method if you want to click x and y coordinates.

 $sel->click_at($locator, $coord_string)

In the example above, it says to give it a locator and coord_string. Is there anyway to give it only the coordinates?

Best Regards

[jandrew]

I prefer to click on the button by it's Document Object Model "DOM" id and then you are not locked into the location on the screen.

$sel->click ( "id=button1" )
or walk the DOM tree
$sel-> click ( 'dom=document.getElementById( "11" ).parentNode.firstChild.firstChild' )

[venkatesan_G02]

Have you installed Selenium IDE in your firefox?

[jandrew]

At the risk of answering in an XY Problem way I read you earlier post about Win32::IEAutomation. Having recently gone through my own dail-up on Selenium and to reinforce what venkatesan_G02 implied, IE is buggy when using Selenium. As long as your only goal is to automate access to a web page you're better off sticking with automating a Firefox browser since the DOM inspector support is better and IE fails to respond to Selenium in weird ways.