How to handle Pop-up in Selenium WebDriver using Java

Question

I want to handle sign-in part in rediff.com, but the below code doesn't work for that:

driver.get("http://www.rediff.com/");
WebElement sign = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//html/body/div[3]/div[3]/span[4]/span/a"));
sign.click();
String myWindowHandle = driver.getWindowHandle();
driver.switchTo().window(myWindowHandle);
WebElement email_id= driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='signin_info']/a[1]"));
email_id.sendKeys("hi");

If myWindowHandle is not the correct string, then let me know how to get the pop-up Window name, because I can't find the name of the pop-up window.

Answer 1

To switch to a popup window, you need to use getWindowHandles() and iterate through them.

In your code you are using getWindowHandle() which will give you the parent window itself.

String parentWindowHandler = driver.getWindowHandle(); // Store your parent window
String subWindowHandler = null;

Set<String> handles = driver.getWindowHandles(); // get all window handles
Iterator<String> iterator = handles.iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()){
    subWindowHandler = iterator.next();
}
driver.switchTo().window(subWindowHandler); // switch to popup window

// Now you are in the popup window, perform necessary actions here

driver.switchTo().window(parentWindowHandler);  // switch back to parent window

Answer 2

I found the solution for the above program, which had the goal of signing in to http://rediff.com

public class Handle_popupNAlert
{
    public static void main(String[] args ) throws InterruptedException
    {
        WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver(); 
        driver.get("http://www.rediff.com/");
        WebElement sign = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//html/body/div[3]/div[3]/span[4]/span/a"));
        sign.click();

        Set<String> windowId = driver.getWindowHandles();    // get  window id of current window
        Iterator<String> itererator = windowId.iterator();   

        String mainWinID = itererator.next();
        String  newAdwinID = itererator.next();

        driver.switchTo().window(newAdwinID);
        System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
        Thread.sleep(3000);
        driver.close();

        driver.switchTo().window(mainWinID);
        System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
        Thread.sleep(2000);

        WebElement email_id= driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='c_uname']"));
        email_id.sendKeys("hi");
        Thread.sleep(5000);

        driver.close();
        driver.quit();
    }  
}

Answer 3

You can handle popup window or alert box:

Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
alert.accept();

You can also decline the alert box:

Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
alert().dismiss();