Can I make Behat/ZombieJS/Mink simulate a click on a "non-link" element, to fire JS listeners?

Question

I am using Behat for testing, with the ZombieJS driver, and everything is working very well so far, but there is one thing that bothers me, I can't seem to figure out how to get Behat to simulate a click on a non-link element. I guess this comes from Mink being a "cross-browser" driver, and it doesn't really make sense to click on non-link elements. For my use case though, I need it, because there are several elements on the page that have javascript event listeners attached to them, and I want to test these functionalities.

I tried using

Then I follow "div.sa"

But it fails with the expected error:

01. Link with id|title|alt|text "div.sa" not found.

Since it's not a link element. There is a similar step in Behat:

I press "button.class"

But this one is only for buttons.

Is there a way I could get Behat click on elements that are not tags?

Answer 1

Yes I believe so, but you'll need to write a custom step, something along these lines (if you're using a subclass of MinkContext.

/**
 * @When /^I click the something$/
 */
public function iClickTheSomething() 
{
    $something = $this->getSession()
                      ->getPage()
                      ->find("css", "div.sa")
                      ->click();
}