Handling pop ups/alert/confirmations/prompts in Selenium

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Permalink Reply by Vips Gupta on February 18, 2010 at 5:45pm

Selenium does not handle certain set of popups. If you are using Selenium then you need to look for integrating another open source tool e.g. Autoit, to start handling those popups with your selenium scripts.

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Permalink Reply by Narayan Raman on February 20, 2010 at 8:02pm

You can use Sahi (http://sahi.co.in) to test these.

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Permalink Reply by Dmitriy V. Golushko on February 22, 2010 at 5:53pm

Javascript's pop-up dialogs should be specified somewhere in the document's DOM model. In some JS frameworks dialogs create events on it's action, e.g. Jquery UI raise different events on different kinds of actions. You can learn more about this on http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/ in tab Events.

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Permalink Reply by Suveer on February 22, 2010 at 7:43pm

We can use Selenium RC to handle the pop-up windows. There are different methods available to deal with different types of pop-up windows. Following are some methods that I have used to handle pop-up windows/JavaScript alerts using Selenium RC java client.

selenium.chooseCancelOnNextConfirmation();
selenium.chooseOkOnNextConfirmation();

These method calls should be executed before the event that generates the Pop-up windows /JavaScript alerts. e.g. if clicking a Delete button pop-up a java script alert with OK and Cancel button then functions call would be.

selenium.chooseOkOnNextConfirmation();
selenium.click("DeleteButton");

This would instruct selenium to click OK on the pop-up window that appears as a result of clicking the delete button.

Sample Soure Code:

//Click 'Ok' button on pop-up window
selenium.chooseOkOnNextConfirmation();
//Click 'Delete' button
selenium.click("//img[@alt='Delete']");
assertTrue(selenium.getConfirmation().matches("^Conferm cancel [\\s\\S]$"));
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("90000000");
selenium.click("sm-event.ADClient-ADSearchBase.Back");

selenium.waitForPageToLoad("90000000

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Permalink Reply by Dmitriy V. Golushko on February 22, 2010 at 11:49pm

Can Selenium handle IE Security Alert, e.g. like this?

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Baldock on June 4, 2010 at 1:48am

UI Developer here... we have a standard YUI dialog with (submit) and (cancel) buttons, but had trouble testing because of course YUI gives them dynamic IDs and you can't predict the ID. What I did in the .js:

Initialize the dialog...

var myNewDialog = YAHOO.dialog.initialize ("container", "width");

Then before you go to .show() the dialog, do this:

var submitButton = YAHOO.dialog.myNewDialog.getButtons()[0];
submitButton.set('id', "submit-button");
var cancelButton = YAHOO.dialog.myNewDialog.getButtons()[1];
cancelButton.set('id', "cancel-button");

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Baldock on June 4, 2010 at 1:51am

This doesn't end up changing the button elements in your HTML at all, but does assign the ID to the grandparent Span element in the XPath. So now you have your static paths:

//span[@id='submit-button']/span/button
//span[@id='cancel-button']/span/button

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