How do you focus on new windows with selenium ide?

Question

I am trying to use selenium ide to duplicate an action. The action is clicking on a link that open a new window. How do you make selenium ide focus on the new window instead of the other one? It has not been working for me.

Answer 1

Select Window

For this you will need to use the selectWindow | windowName command.

To go back to the main window from the other window then do selectWindow | null

Arguments:

    * windowID - the JavaScript window ID of the window to select

Selects a popup window using a window locator; once a popup window

has been selected, all commands go to that window. To select the main window again, use null as the target.

Window locators provide different ways of specifying the window object:

by title, by internal JavaScript "name," or by JavaScript variable.

    * title=My Special Window: Finds the window using the text that

appears in the title bar. Be careful; two windows can share the same title. If that happens, this locator will just pick one. * name=myWindow: Finds the window using its internal JavaScript "name" property. This is the second parameter "windowName" passed to the JavaScript method window.open(url, windowName, windowFeatures, replaceFlag) (which Selenium intercepts). * var=variableName: Some pop-up windows are unnamed (anonymous), but are associated with a JavaScript variable name in the current application window, e.g. "window.foo = window.open(url);". In those cases, you can open the window using "var=foo".

If no window locator prefix is provided, we'll try to guess what you

mean like this:

1.) if windowID is null, (or the string "null") then it is assumed the

user is referring to the original window instantiated by the browser).

2.) if the value of the "windowID" parameter is a JavaScript variable

name in the current application window, then it is assumed that this variable contains the return value from a call to the JavaScript window.open() method.

3.) Otherwise, selenium looks in a hash it maintains that maps string

names to window "names".

4.) If that fails, we'll try looping over all of the known windows

to try to find the appropriate "title". Since "title" is not necessarily unique, this may have unexpected behavior.

If you're having trouble figuring out the name of a window that you want

to manipulate, look at the Selenium log messages which identify the names of windows created via window.open (and therefore intercepted by Selenium). You will see messages like the following for each window as it is opened:

debug: window.open call intercepted; window ID (which you can

use with selectWindow()) is "myNewWindow"

In some cases, Selenium will be unable to intercept a call to

window.open (if the call occurs during or before the "onLoad" event, for example). (This is bug SEL-339.) In those cases, you can force Selenium to notice the open window's name by using the Selenium openWindow command, using an empty (blank) url, like this: openWindow("", "myFunnyWindow").

selectWindow(windowID)

selectPopup

If it is a popup then do selectPopUp | windowId and then to go back to the main window do selectWindow | null

selectPopUp(windowID) Arguments:

• windowID - an identifier for the popup window, which can take on a number of different meanings

Simplifies the process of selecting a popup window (and does not offer functionality beyond what selectWindow() already provides).

• If windowID is either not specified, or specified as "null", the first non-top window is selected. The top window is the one that would be selected by selectWindow() without providing a windowID . This should not be used when more than one popup window is in play.
• Otherwise, the window will be looked up considering windowID as the following in order:
  1. The "name" of the window, as specified to window.open()
  2. A JavaScript variable which is a reference to a window
  3. The title of the window. This is the same ordered lookup performed by selectWindow