1) What is Alert?
2) Type of Alerts
3) How to handle Alert using Selenium WebDriver?
What is Alert?
Alert is a pop up window on the screen. These alerts perform different purposes, like provide some message to user, need some input from the user, or can be only for warning purpose. We will discuss about below mentioned alerts:-
1) Simple Alert
2) Confirmation Alert
3) Prompt
There is an interface in Selenium called Alert. It is present in the org.openqa.selenium.Alert package. Alert interface gives us following methods to deal with the alert:
- accept() To accept the alert by clicking on OK button
- dismiss() To dismiss the alert by clicking on CANCEL button
- getText() To get the text of the alert
- sendKeys() To write some text to the alert box
Type of Alerts
1) Simple alert – Simple alert just have an OK button on them. It is use to display some information to the user.
Important point to note is that we can switch from main window to an alert using the below point
driver.switchTo().alert()
Below is a perfect example which shows how to handle Simple Alert with Selenium
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.Alert;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class SimpleAlert_Example {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\Users\\vibha\\Downloads\\geckodriver-v0.24.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(120, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
driver.navigate().to("https://www.seleniumeasy.com/test/javascript-alert-box-demo.html");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class='btn btn-default']")).click();
// accepting javascript alert
Alert simpleAlert = driver.switchTo().alert();
String alertText = simpleAlert.getText();
//Print the message mentioned on the AlertBox
System.out.println("Alert text is :" + alertText);
//This step is only for demonstration purpose to show the alert box
Thread.sleep(2000);
simpleAlert.accept();
//Close the current page
driver.close();
}
}
Output
Alert text is :I am an alert box!
2) Confirmation Alert – This alert comes with an option to accept or dismiss the alert. To accept the alert we can use Alert.accept() and to dismiss we can use the Alert.dismiss().
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.Alert;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class ConfirmationAlert {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\Users\\vibha\\Downloads\\geckodriver-v0.24.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(120, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.navigate().to("https://www.seleniumeasy.com/test/javascript-alert-box-demo.html");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class='btn btn-default btn-lg']")).click();
Thread.sleep(2000);
// accepting javascript alert
Alert ConfirmationAlert = driver.switchTo().alert();
String alertText = ConfirmationAlert.getText();
System.out.println("Alert text is :" + alertText);
ConfirmationAlert.accept();
//Close the current page
driver.close();
}
}
Output
Alert text is :Press a button!
3) Prompt Alert – In prompt alert, we get an option to add text to the alert box. This is use when some input is required from the user. We will use the sendKeys() method to type something in the Prompt alert box.
Below is an example that illustrate how to handle Prompt Alert using Selenium WebDriver.
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.Alert;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class Prompt_Example {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\Users\\vibha\\Downloads\\geckodriver-v0.24.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(120, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.navigate().to("https://www.seleniumeasy.com/test/javascript-alert-box-demo.html"); driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='easycont']/div/div[2]/div[3]/div[2]/button")).click();
Thread.sleep(2000);
// accepting javascript alert
Alert PromptAlert = driver.switchTo().alert();
String alertText = PromptAlert.getText();
System.out.println("Alert text is :" + alertText);
//Enter message in Alert Box
PromptAlert .sendKeys("Accepting the alert");
//This sleep is not necessary, just for demonstration
Thread.sleep(4000);
PromptAlert.accept();
//Close the current page
driver.close();
}
}
Output
Alert text is :Please enter your name
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