I've been using Watir to automate testing of my companies primary web app. The tests require a javascript dropdown menu fired by mouse over, and a link on that menu to be clicked.

```
$browser.link(:id=> 'element').fire_event "onemouseover"

```

Was working perfectly until we changed the look and feel of the app. The changes made to the look in feel didn't appear to change in any way how the HTML looks and the menus work. Everything else is working fine with Watir.

I've tried using a solution that seemed to work for others, by including:

```
 class Watir::Element
  def hover
   assert_exists
   driver.action.move_to(@element).perform
  end
 end

```

and using 

```
  browser.div(:id => "someId").hover

```

But when the menus appear they instantly go away before the driver has a chance to click the menu item.