Unable to hold on an element on mouse hover - eclipse

Question

There is a mouse hover drop-down where the drop-down appears on hover and disappears if the mouse pointer is moved way from the drop-down. I tried using "Actions" class to hover on the drop-down element but i cannot see the drop-down after the mouse hover is performed. The drop-down doesn't stay till the next action is performed.
Is there any way where there is a wait after the hover is performed so that the drop-down appears for a longer time in order to select/click elements from the drop-down?
Code:
driver= new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_dropdown.asp");
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*#id='main']/div[3]/button")‌​);
Actions action= new Actions(driver);
action.moveToElement(element).perform();
Thread.sleep(5000);
Environment:
Chrome version: 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit)
Chrome driver: 2.27

Answer 1

Use same code that you wrote for mouse hover action and try following solution before mouse hover action.
Keep mouse cursor on task bar.
OR
Move mouse cursor at (0, 0) browser location.

Answer 2

After perform() you need to traverse through the elements.
Here is the working code:
package demo;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
public class MouseHoverDemo_w3school {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.get("https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_dropdown.asp");
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//div[#class='dropdown dropdown2']/button"));
Actions act = new Actions(driver);
act.moveToElement(ele).perform();
List<WebElement> links = driver.findElements(By.xpath(".//div[#class='dropdown-content']/a"));
int total_count = links.size();
for (int i=0; i<total_count; i++)
{
WebElement element = links.get(i);
String text = element.getAttribute("innerHTML");
System.out.println("Link Name is : "+text);
}
driver.quit();
}
}
Let me know if this answers your question.