Handling Popup in Selenium

How to handle popups of any Website


What are popups?

• Popups are launched automatically from the website and they act as a Interruption
• Popups windows are basically of 2 types
• HTML( Act like a new Frame)
• Non-HTML( Act like a Alert)
• In order to differentiate between them just inspect the popup window with Firebug
• Selenium has given us Alert Class to handle the Non-HTML popups

Non-HTML Pop-up window

The following code will get the text written on the Pop-up

 import java.io.File;  
 import java.io.IOException;  
 import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.By;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;  
 import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;  
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;  
 public class Alert {  
      public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {  
           WebDriver a= new FirefoxDriver();  
           a.manage().window().maximize();  
           a.get("http://www.ksrtc.in/");  
           a.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@class='button1 redbtn']")).click();;  
           Thread.sleep(2000);       
           org.openqa.selenium.Alert s= a.switchTo().alert();  
           String aa=s.getText();  
           System.out.print(aa);  
      a.quit();  
           }  
      }  

Notes

1-Alert is a class and we can create a reference variable for Alert class 

2-SwitchTo() is a method offered by Selenium webdriver which act as a switching point to the new window which can be Alert and Frames

3- 3 different type of action can be taken on alert window for which 3 methods are available in Alert Class

• Accept():- To Click on Ok/Submit button on the Alert
• Decline(): Close the Alert window/Click on Cancel button on the Alert window
• getText():- Returns exact message of the Alert

Output