In this tutorial, I am going to discuss how to handle alerts/pop-ups in selenium WebDriver scripts.

Topics to be covered - 

• What is Alert?
• Different types of Alert.
• Alert Interface in Selenium WebDriver.
• Methods of Alert Interface.
• Practical Example.
• Exception in Alert Interface.

Alert In Selenium

Alert is a small message box or pop-up that appears on the screen to display some notification/information to the users, asks permission form the users to perform some actions or asks some input from the users.

Types of Alerts -


 1. Simple Alert - This type of alert appears on the screen to give some notification/information to the users. It has the 'OK' button.

2. Prompt Alert - This type of alert appears on the screen to ask the user to input some values in the text field displayed on the alert box. It has 'OK' and 'CANCEL' buttons.

3. Confirmation Alert - This type of alert appears on the screen to get permission from the user to perform certain kind of actions It has 'OK' and 'CANCEL' buttons.

Alert Interface - 

To handle Alert pop-ups, Selenium provides an interface called Alert. To use it in the WebDriver script, we need to import one package - 

 import org.openqa.selenium.Alert;  

To handle Alert, WebDriver has provided one method -

• driver.switchTo().alert() - This method switches to the alert available on the web-page. It returns a reference of the alert interface.

Methods provided by Alert Interface - 

1.  void accept() - It clicks on 'OK' buttons.
2. void dismiss() - It clicks on 'CANCEL' buttons.
3. String getText() - It captures alert's message.
4. void sendKeys() - It enters text value in the alert's text field.

Scenario - 

1. Open rediff.com login page in chrome browser.
2. Click on 'Login' button.
3. Get the text of the alert box and verify it.
4. If it verified then click on 'OK' button.

 package com.sessions;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.Alert;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.By;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;  
 public class Selenium_Alert {  
      public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {  
           System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "F:\\software\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");  
           WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();  
           //launch rediff application.  
           driver.get("https://mail.rediff.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi");  
           //maximizing browser.  
           driver.manage().window().maximize();  
           //clicking on 'GO' button.  
           driver.findElement(By.name("proceed")).click();  
           //Creating Alert Interface  
           Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();  
           //Storing Expected Alert Message  
           String ExpectedAlertMessage = "Please enter a valid user name";  
           //Get text message of the alert box  
           String ActualAlertMessage = alert.getText();  
           //Putting execution of program in sleep for 5 secs.  
           Thread.sleep(5000);  
           //Comparing actual and expected. If matches click on 'OK' button.  
           if(ExpectedAlertMessage.equals(ActualAlertMessage))  
           {  
                alert.accept();  
           }  
      }  
 }  

Code Walk Through - 


1. Open rediff.com login page in chrome browser.

 //launch rediff application.  
 driver.get("https://mail.rediff.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi");  

2. Maximize the browser

 //maximizing browser.  
 driver.manage().window().maximize();  

3. Click on the 'GO' button.

 //clicking on 'GO' button.  
 driver.findElement(By.name("proceed")).click();  

Note - After clicking on the 'GO' button, an alert will be displayed. So, we need to switch to it as discussed above.

4. Create an Alert Interface reference and switch to the Alert.

 //Creating Alert Interface  
 Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();  

Hi guys, In this post, I am going to discuss how to execute selenium script in Internet Explorer browser.

 Pre-requisite - 

• Make sure you have already installed Eclipse IDE.

• Make sure you have already configured WebDriver-jar file with your java project.

• Make sure you have downloaded the latest version of WebDriver-jar file. Otherwise, you will get a compiler error.

• Make sure you have downloaded the driver for Chrome. I will show you below how to do it. 

Note - If you don't know how to configureWebDriver-jar with your java project, then refer the link - Configure webdriver -jar files with Java Project

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How to run Selenium WebDriver script in IE browser

1. Open Eclipse.

2. Create one Java Project for example SeleniumTutorial.

3.  Right click on SeleniumTutorial and navigate as shown below - 

4. Create one package lets say com.selenium and click on Finish.

5. In the same way, right click on com.selenium and create one class for example SeleniumTutorial.

6.  Finally, your class will be created and will be shown as - 

How to download IEDriver?

• Refer the link - Download IEDriver
• Download the latest version zip file based on 32-bit or 64-bit supported by your PC and also based on your OS. 

• Open the downloaded file and extract it. It will look like - 

• Open the extracted folder and then copy the path.

Now we will write the script 

1. Under the main body, write - 

 System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "F:\software\IEDriver");  

• First parameter - We pass the name of the driver.
• Second parameter - We pass the path of the extracted jar file. 

• selectByVisibleText() - 

 package com.sessions;  
 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.support.ui.Select;  
 public class SeleniumChrome {  
      public static Select select;//Making scope of select as global. Since we will use it at three different places for dropdowns below.  
      public static void main(String[] args) {  
           System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "F:\\software\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");  
           WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();  
           driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");//launch facebook application.  
           driver.manage().window().maximize();//maximizing browser.  
           //InputTextField  
           WebElement username = driver.findElement(By.id("email"));//Identified the username field.   
           username.sendKeys("xyz@gmail.com");//Entered text in the field.   
           //PasswordField   
           WebElement password= driver.findElement(By.id("pass"));//Identified the password field.   
           password.sendKeys("********");//Entered password in the field.  
           //RadioButtons  
            WebElement radio_female= driver.findElement(By.id("u_0_9"));//Identified the female radio field.    
            radio_female.click();//selected it.      
            WebElement radio_male= driver.findElement(By.id("u_0_a"));//Identified the male radio field.   
            radio_male.click();//selected male radio field as well as un-selected female radio field.  
            //Dropdown - selectByVisibleText()  
            WebElement daytext = driver.findElement(By.id("day"));//identifing the 'day' dropdown available on facebook login page.   
            select = new Select(daytext);//instantiating the dropdown elements as Select class object.   
            select.selectByVisibleText("10");//selecting value from dropdown.  
            //Dropdown - selectByIndex()  
            WebElement dayIndex = driver.findElement(By.id("day"));//identifing the 'day' dropdown available on facebook login page.   
            select = new Select(dayIndex);//instantiating the dropdown elements as Select class object.   
            select.selectByIndex(11);//selecting value from dropdown.  
           //Dropdown - SelectBYValue()   
           WebElement dayValue = driver.findElement(By.id("day"));//identifing the 'day' dropdown available on facebook login page.  
           select = new Select(dayValue);//instantiating the dropdown elements as Select class object.  
           select.selectByValue("11");;//selecting value from dropdown  
           boolean status = select.isMultiple();//verifying dropdown allows multiple selection  
           System.out.println(status);//prints the status on the eclipse console  
           //Buttons  
           WebElement button= driver.findElement(By.id("u_0_2"));//Identified the Login button.   
           button.click();//clicked on it.   
      }  
 }