Hello everyone,

I’m trying to automating navigation using Hound, but I’m having some troubles with select/option elements and how to interact with them.

For instance, I tried in different ways to select an option from the site "https://www.imovelweb.com.br/."

I tried the solution below but didn’t work.

I’m using the selenium driver with the chrome browser.

$ brew install selenium-server-standalone
$ selenium-server -port 4444

use Mix.Config

config :hound,
  driver: "selenium",
  browser: "chrome"

I tried to select in the following ways:

def search() do
    Hound.start_session()

    navigate_to(@url)

    find_element(:css, "#operationType option[value='1']")
    |> click

    #take_screenshot()

  rescue
    e ->
      IO.inspect(e)
      :notfound
  after
    Hound.end_session
  end

Error

%RuntimeError{
  message: "element not interactable: Element is not currently visible and may not be manipulated\n  (Session info: chrome=79.0.3945.88)\nBuild info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:53'\nSystem info: host: 'Rodrigos-MacBook-Pro.local', ip: '2804:14c:4a:9f9d:1591:2820:1fe7:d763', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.15.2', java.version: '1.8.0_131'\nDriver info: driver.version: unknown"
}

def search() do
    Hound.start_session()

    navigate_to(@url)

    find_element(:css, "#operationType")
    |> find_within_element(:css, "option[value='1']")
    |> click

    #take_screenshot()

  rescue
    e ->
      IO.inspect(e)
      :notfound
  after
    Hound.end_session
  end

Error

%RuntimeError{
  message: "element not interactable: Element is not currently visible and may not be manipulated\n  (Session info: chrome=79.0.3945.88)\nBuild info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:53'\nSystem info: host: 'Rodrigos-MacBook-Pro.local', ip: '2804:14c:4a:9f9d:1591:2820:1fe7:d763', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.15.2', java.version: '1.8.0_131'\nDriver info: driver.version: unknown"
}

I was wondering if I have to click on the select element before to show the options and then click on the chosen option, but when I tried to click on the select element I got another error.

def search() do
    Hound.start_session()

    navigate_to(@url)

    find_element(:css, "#operationType")
    |> click

    #take_screenshot()

  rescue
    e ->
      IO.inspect(e)
      :notfound
  after
    Hound.end_session
  end

Error

%RuntimeError{
  message: "element not interactable\n  (Session info: chrome=79.0.3945.88)\nBuild info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:53'\nSystem info: host: 'Rodrigos-MacBook-Pro.local', ip: '2804:14c:4a:9f9d:1591:2820:1fe7:d763', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.15.2', java.version: '1.8.0_131'\nDriver info: driver.version: unknown"
}

Thanks!