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1. #SELENIUM POPUP WINDOW HOW TO#
2. #SELENIUM POPUP WINDOW DRIVERS#
3. #SELENIUM POPUP WINDOW DRIVER#
4. #SELENIUM POPUP WINDOW CODE#

#SELENIUM POPUP WINDOW HOW TO#

We should now have a clear idea in our mind of the various types of popup, let’s now have a look at some code.įirst of all we are going to look at how to automate things alerts. Know what actions are going to trigger these popups in advance. These are things that Selenium can interact with, but you will need to Historically these were the default type of Selenium popup, although nowadays theyĪre not quite as common because website designers tend to prefer using non-blocking HTML popups instead. These are blocking popups, they will pause JavaScript execution until they have been interacted with. You just interact with them in same way that you would interact with any other element on screen and then do what you To work with these, after all they are just HTML and CSS. That these popups are HTML website designers can use CSS to make these things look like something they are not, which can cause confusion. HTML Popups (Lightboxes)Īn HTML popup can look like a JavaScript popup, or a OS level popup, but in reality it’s just more HTML layered over the top of existing HTML on the website. There are tools out there that will do this, but it’s a complex bit of work and you really don’t need to test OS levelįunctionality to check that your website works.

#SELENIUM POPUP WINDOW CODE#

If you did want to try and interact with these OS level popups you would need to write some code that can control the

The browser, controlling the OS is totally out of scope.

Selenium tutorial is only designed to interact with websites rendered in The best option to deal with these OS level popups, is to never do anything that will trigger them in your test. Printing a page you are viewing in the browser.You will commonly see these if you do something that the browserĬannot do, at this point the browser will hand over to the OS to find another program to perform the required task. The first popup listed is an OS level dialogue these are the things you will see when the browser hands over control to the operating system to do a task for it (althoughīrowsers like chrome are blurring the lines here a little bit by making it look like the browser is doing it). Like to put popups into three main categories: In this article I will try and provide some clear definitions of different popups, show you how to handle Popup in Selenium Webdriver and show you how to automate them, and a few gotchas as well.įirst of all we need to define what we mean by a popup it’s a nebulous term that people use to describe multiple different types of functionality that is out in the wild.

#SELENIUM POPUP WINDOW DRIVERS#

Popups can be a sticky subject in Selenium because the definition of what a popup is can be unclear and different drivers exhibit different default behaviour. getTitle().This article will dive deeper into how to handle popups with selenium webdriver.Īfter you have been working with Selenium for a while you will eventually be given a task to automate something that has some sort of popup functionality. getWindowHandle() // save the current window handle. Add the code just before the first popup action being commented. Note that the actions tells the title of the popup window. The following code identifies the popup window with title "Google". The above code is the result of recording in the popup window having google search page, searching for "Thoughtworks". popup.findElement(By.name("btnG")).submit() " popup.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("Thoughtworks") Look at - 'How do I handle popup in WebDriver' section for more details. Write your logic to locate the appropriate popup before using commented actions. Twist recorder records actions in popup windows as commented code.

#SELENIUM POPUP WINDOW DRIVER#

In Selenium 2(WebDriver), testing popup windows involve switching the driver to the popup window and then running the corresponding actions.