I'm currently using Selenium WebDriver 2.35 and hit a roadblock when it comes to taking a screenshot. I wrote up a small function that takes in an IWebElement and will return a screenshot of the specific element. The element I am trying to screenshot is actually an image pulled from a sprite. This element is tricky though, because upon mouseover/hover the image changes from gray to its true color(by moving to a different part of sprite). I am able to get a proper screenshot of the image via this function, but cannot get it to recognize the mouse interactions with ITakesScreenshot. I can visually see in the browser that the image is hovered over, but the screenshot cannot. Any thoughts?
public static Bitmap GetImage(IWebElement element)
{
RemoteWebDriver driver = BrowserManager.GetInstance().GetDriver();
Actions action = new Actions(driver);
//take screenshot of page
action.MoveToElement(element).Build().Perform();
Byte[] ba= ((ITakesScreenshot)driver).GetScreenshot().AsByteArray;
Bitmap ss = new Bitmap(new MemoryStream(ba));
//ss.Save("c:\\tmp\\ss.png", ImageFormat.Png);
Rectangle crop = new Rectangle(element.Location.X, element.Location.Y, element.Size.Width, element.Size.Height);
//create a new image by cropping the original screenshot
Bitmap image = ss.Clone(crop, ss.PixelFormat);
return image;
}
It seems as though the newest selenium (2.39) has addressed this issue and I am able to see mouse hover in this screenshot method. Thanks everyone for your help!