How to Handle Selecting From Hover Dropdown Menus

Understanding Hover Menus

When navigating websites, encountering hover menus is a common occurrence. These menus appear when you hover over a specific element on a webpage, providing additional options or information. Mastering the art of handling hover menus is crucial for seamless website automation.

Recording Hover Steps

To begin interacting with hover menus, the first step is recording a hover action. This involves hovering over the desired element to reveal the dropdown menu. By recording this initial step, you set the stage for further interactions with the menu.

Navigating Click Steps

Once the hover step is recorded, the next task is to capture click actions within the dropdown menu. Clicking on different options or buttons within the hover menu requires precision and strategic automation techniques. Recording these click steps ensures accurate and efficient navigation through the menu.

Challenges and Solutions

While handling hover menus, various websites may present challenges such as dynamic elements or unexpected behavior. One common obstacle is dealing with pop-up notifications that cannot be recorded through click steps. However, leveraging automation tools allows users to interact with these pop-ups effectively.

Optimizing Website Interactions

Mastering hover menus not only streamlines website automation processes but also enhances user experience. By efficiently selecting from dropdown menus and navigating hover interactions, users can increase productivity and achieve precise automation results.

Conclusion

In conclusion, mastering the art of handling hover menus is essential for effective website automation. By recording hover and click steps, users can interact seamlessly with dropdown menus and overcome challenges presented by dynamic website elements. Enhance your automation skills by practicing these techniques and stay tuned for more tips and tricks from our automation experts.

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Hey everybody, Jeremy Redman here with Kyle. How's it going? Okay.

Okay. We're here. Uh, we're making these back to back to back to back to back. Okay. Um, I'm getting like dry mouth. All right. Start a new automation. Um, I'm trying to look for a website. Hold on. Wait. I just saw something. Here we go. Okay. So,

oops. It opened on my other monitor. Okay. Browser opened. So, this website, if I go here. Okay. This has a menu. Go slow. Yeah, so this has a menu on hover right here. Okay, by the way that location thing It doesn't really matter with our piece. No that it doesn't happen in the browser. Okay? Okay, that makes sense So got this and I don't know if this example will actually mark it a lot again It depends on if we're sure and it's not always sure in this scenario, but it's giving you the example of hovering So for a hover step, I can click hover here and then I'll click over here and then I can confirm this step and then so that I can record the click step of the menu, I have to play this step because there's no possible way for me to record this click step.

Because this isn't going to trigger when I'm trying to record the click step. We disable everything on the page to help you record. Okay, so this is for hover menus, like all hover menus this is good for or what? Correct, yeah. Okay, so this is, this is how to Take care of all hover menus. Correct. Using hover and click, I guess.

Okay. So demonstrate it. I recorded this hover step. So I, to record the click step of clicking vehicles and whatever else you want to click in here. I need to, I need to play this step that way it opens in the browser. Right now, first you record a hover step, right? Okay. And now I want to record a click step.

Okay. But you have to play it first. Correct. Because then record a clip. Because if I record this click step and I click here, I can't record, I guess that actually does kind of work in this site, for example, it won't work that way in every site, but we were able to record that here, what happens in most sites is we need to play hover.

Then we can record our click step, uh, when that's on the page, but this website looks to be doing, being a little different. So that's kind of where it's a testing process of you either play hover and record this, or you can do it with the click step while you're recording. Okay. Is that all for hover menus?

Yeah. So if I click here and then we click here, it's now handling that menu. Ah, that is really cool. Okay. And that is all for recording, uh, how to record on hover menus. Hover menus, hover menus. Yes, Kyle. Anything to add here? Yeah, this, this shows that I don't, I can't show you this example right now. Cause I don't remember the customer's stuff for this, but some websites use this a lot for forms when it's like save and, and I want to do something like, let's say you're adding a customer to a CRM.

A lot of times there's save customer and then there's save customer and email. So on hover, how to handle clicks inside hover menus. Yeah, menus that only show on hover, I guess. I don't know how you want to describe that. Menus that show on hover. Okay. Okay, great. Anything else to add to that? Um, these pop ups, although they're annoying, you'll notice you can't record a click step of them, which means that they don't happen in the website.

So we can just interact with these and get rid of it however we want. So we can click block a lot, whatever we want to do for the site. Okay, cool. So that's all for that's all for the hover menus. Okay, great. Awesome. Let us know your comments below. We're here to help.