How to hover and click on hidden elements with Selenium Basic using VBA? - excel

Question

I followed a couple of solutions to this problem on this platform, especially Trouble selecting a hidden menu item using SeleniumBasic for vba
I was able to hover through the menu of the website I'm trying to automate, but I'm unable to click on the table row (Claims Submission) which is the second option when the table/form is visible.
My initial goal was to hover the visible menu of the page to show a drop down and I achieved that with a loop.
Now when the (claims) Menu is visible I need to click on the second option (Claims Submission) of that table. As directed from Trouble selecting a hidden menu item using SeleniumBasic for vba I attempted to use an xpath to reference the element.
It returned
Run-time error '7':
NoSuchElementError
Element not found for XPath=//a[.//span[contains(.,'Claims Submission')]]
Private WB As Selenium.WebDriver
Sub Test()
Set WB = New Selenium.ChromeDriver
WB.Start
WB.Get "https://health.axamansard.com/axamansardProviderlogin/Index.aspx"
Dim Menu As WebElement
Dim Menus As WebElements
Dim MenuSubmission As WebElement
WB.FindElementByName("txtUname").SendKeys "Almadina"
WB.FindElementByName("txtPass").SendKeys "Nhisdesk#1234"
WB.FindElementByName("btnSubmit").Click
Set Menus = WB.FindElementsByClass("a")
For Each Menu In Menus
If Menu.Text = "Claims" Then
WB.Mouse.MoveTo Menu
Set MenuSubmission = WB.FindElementByXPath("//a[.//span[contains(.,'Claims Submission')]]")
MenuSubmission.Click
End If
Next
End sub
WebScript
<table class="menu" id="Claims" width="150px" bgcolor="white" style="visibility: hidden;">
<tbody><tr height="19px">
<td class="menu"><a class="a"
href="../Forms/ClaimsBatch.aspx">Claims Batch</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="19px">
<td class="menu"><a class="a"
href="../Forms/ClaimSubmission.aspx">Claims Submission</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="19px">
<td class="menu"><a class="a"
href="../Forms/ClaimSubmissionList.aspx">Claims Submission List</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="19px">
<td class="menu"><a class="a"
href="../Forms/ClaimsUpload.aspx">Claims Upload</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="19px">
<td class="menu"><a class="a"
href="../Forms/Calimreviewlist.aspx">Claims Status</a></td>
</tr>
<tr height="19px">
<td class="menu"><a class="a"
href="../Forms/ProviderClaimsBatchDetails.aspx">Provider Claims Batch Details/Claim Credit Note Details</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>

Answer 1

The xpath to the link Claims Submission seems a bit off. You can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
FindElementByXPath:
WB.FindElementByXPath("//table[#id='Claims']//td/a[.='Claims Submission']").Click
FindElementByXPath relative to Claims:
WB.FindElementByXPath("//a[.='Claims']//following::table[1]//td/a[.='Claims Submission']").Click