Selenium Click with x and y coordinates

arya6000 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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

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Re: Selenium Click with x and y coordinates by jandrew (Chaplain) on Sep 17, 2009 at 14:59 UTC
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' )	[reply]
Re: Selenium Click with x and y coordinates by venkatesan_G02 (Sexton) on Sep 17, 2009 at 10:55 UTC
Have you installed Selenium IDE in your firefox?	[reply]
Re: Selenium Click with x and y coordinates by jandrew (Chaplain) on Sep 17, 2009 at 19:02 UTC
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.	[reply]