# Synthetic test script 'examples/inline/short' hover action fails
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-test-script-examples-inline-short-hover-action-fails/273667
**Category:** Synthetics
**Created:** [May 21, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-test-script-examples-inline-short-hover-action-fails/273667 "2021-05-21T13:03:42Z")
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### Author:  [@iorfix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iorfix)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-test-script-examples-inline-short-hover-action-fails/273667/1 "2021-05-21T13:03:42Z")
Hi all,
I'm willing to explore the new syntethic features.
I downloaed the repo, and launched the command:
```bash
cat examples/inline/short.js | npx @elastic/synthetics --inline
```
However, the script failed to complete the hover action. Activating DEBUG, the script correctly recognized the css element, but failed to "hover" on it.
Is there something I'm missing?
Thank you
NOTE: I changed the test from `page.hover` to `page.$` and now it works correctly.
```auto
Journey: inline
at 2788 ms register step: load homepage
at 2788 ms register step: hover over products menu
at 2788 ms Runner: before hooks for (inline)
at 2788 ms Runner: emit> step:start
at 2788 ms Runner: start step (load homepage)
pw:api => page.goto started +1ms
pw:api navigating to "https://www.elastic.co", waiting until "load" +2ms
pw:api navigated to "https://www.elastic.co/" +415ms
pw:api navigated to "https://a18132920325.cdn.optimizely.com/client_storage/a18132920325.html" +989ms
pw:api "domcontentloaded" event fired +169ms
pw:api navigated to "https://www.elastic.co/" +189ms
pw:api navigated to "https://play.vidyard.com/YEBGzbYwDdnvss6NXn1xzo?disable_popouts=1&v=4.2.30&type=inline&referring_url=&autoplay=0&hidden_controls=0&muted=1&loop=0&disable_analytics=0" +686ms
pw:api navigated to "https://play.vidyard.com/YEBGzbYwDdnvss6NXn1xzo?disable_popouts=1&v=4.2.30&type=inline&referring_url=&autoplay=0&hidden_controls=0&muted=1&loop=0&disable_analytics=0" +4ms
pw:api navigated to "about:blank" +7ms
pw:api navigated to "https://info.elastic.co/index.php/form/XDFrame" +105ms
pw:api "load" event fired +345ms
pw:api <= page.goto succeeded +0ms
at 5700 ms Runner: end step (load homepage)
at 5700 ms Runner: emit> step:end
✓ Step: 'load homepage' succeeded (2911 ms)
at 5700 ms Runner: emit> step:start
at 5700 ms Runner: start step (hover over products menu)
pw:api => page.hover started +1ms
pw:api "domcontentloaded" event fired +1ms
pw:api waiting for selector "css=[data-nav-item=products]" +3ms
pw:api selector resolved to visible Notice from …
subtree intercepts pointer events +3ms
pw:api retrying hover action, attempt #1 +0ms
pw:api waiting for element to be visible and stable +0ms
pw:api element is visible and stable +26ms
pw:api scrolling into view if needed +0ms
pw:api done scrolling +1ms
pw:api checking that element receives pointer events at (201,42) +1ms
pw:api Notice
from …
subtree intercepts pointer events +3ms
pw:api retrying hover action, attempt #2 +0ms
....
```
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-test-script-examples-inline-short-hover-action-fails/273667/2 "2021-05-24T19:28:56Z")
Interesting @iorfix, which version of synthetics are you using? I just tried it and it works fine for me
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### Author:  [@iorfix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iorfix)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-test-script-examples-inline-short-hover-action-fails/273667/3 "2021-05-25T08:22:12Z")
Hi @Andrew_Cholakian1, I pulled the master branch and just launch the command.
The client is behind a proxy, but as the script is able to download the page and navigating it, I think this is not an issue.
Let me know if I need to enable other debug selectors, and collect more logs
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-test-script-examples-inline-short-hover-action-fails/273667/4 "2021-05-25T12:57:31Z")
One thing you can do is to run with the `--no-headless --pause-on-error` flags on a box with a GUI. That will launch the browser in the foreground and keep it open even when the error occurs. At that point you can use chrome dev tools to debug why the page isn't working.
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### Author:  [@iorfix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iorfix)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-test-script-examples-inline-short-hover-action-fails/273667/5 "2021-05-25T16:00:27Z")
> [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](#):
>
> `--no-headless --pause-on-error`
I tried it, and I noticed that the "cookie banner" of [elastic.co](http://elastic.co) appears. May it depend on this? Pheraps you already accepted the cookie info, so you don't have the problem?
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-test-script-examples-inline-short-hover-action-fails/273667/6 "2021-05-25T22:27:20Z")
Interesting, I'm noticing that I don't have a cookie banner at all even opening a new private browsing session in chrome.
Synthetics uses a completely fresh browsing context every time it's run and for every journey so clicking on a banner wouldn't maintain that state.
I'm wondering if were only running the banner in Europe. May I ask where you're located? I'll try to get a European colleague to test the site as well
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### Author:  [@iorfix](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iorfix)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-test-script-examples-inline-short-hover-action-fails/273667/7 "2021-05-26T07:53:14Z")
I confirm I'm in Italy!
The GDPR banner is basically in every site you visited the first time. If there is a smart way to bypass it (example, add a cookie in the request), it would be very appreciated.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2021, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-test-script-examples-inline-short-hover-action-fails/273667/8 "2021-06-19T07:53:34Z")
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