So I'm working with selenium firefox webdrivers in c# winform and I have this code below to get the handle of the popup that shows when you click on the "webtraffic_popup_start_button" and it should get the handle of the popup but the popup handle is same as current one.
string current = driver.CurrentWindowHandle;
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[@id='webtraffic_popup_start_button']")).Click();
Thread.Sleep(Sleep_Seconds);
popup = driver.CurrentWindowHandle;
Thread.Sleep(3000);
driver.SwitchTo().Window(current);
Thread.Sleep(1000);
Any help with this would be much appreciated thank you
This is what pop up looks like.
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.
Types of Alerts in Selenium There are mainly 3 types of Alerts, namely: Simple Alert. Prompt Alert. Confirmation Alert.
Let’s see how to handle different types of PopUps / Alerts in Selenium WebDriver one by one. Click on the “Try It” button. It will open the alert box. How to Automate the Scenario? I know you will be fine until clicking on the “Try it” button. But what after the alert box is displayed. How to handle it?
Popup is a window that displays or pops up on the screen due to some activity. If one wishes to know about the various scenarios of pop-ups and how to handle them, read the documentation page. In selenium webdriver, there are multiple methods to handle popups:
In Selenium, robot class is used to handle the keyboard and mouse functions. It is used to close the pop-up window. You can get the window handle of the pop-up window using the WindowHandle () function. I have created my own webpage to demonstrate popup handling in Selenium.
In Selenium web driver there are methods through which we can handle multiple windows. To handle all opened windows by web driver, we can use "Driver.getWindowHandles ()" and then we can switch window from one window to another in a web application. Its return type is Iterator<String>.
WebDriver does absolutely no tracking whatsoever to detect which window is actually in the foreground in the OS, and does no automatic switching when new browser windows are opened. That means the proper way to get the handle of a newly-opened popup window is a multi-step process. To do so, you would:
In code using the .NET language bindings, that would look something like this:
string currentHandle = driver.CurrentWindowHandle;
ReadOnlyCollection<string> originalHandles = driver.WindowHandles;
// Cause the popup to appear
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[@id='webtraffic_popup_start_button']")).Click();
// WebDriverWait.Until<T> waits until the delegate returns
// a non-null value for object types. We can leverage this
// behavior to return the popup window handle.
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
string popupWindowHandle = wait.Until<string>((d) =>
{
string foundHandle = null;
// Subtract out the list of known handles. In the case of a single
// popup, the newHandles list will only have one value.
List<string> newHandles = driver.WindowHandles.Except(originalHandles).ToList();
if (newHandles.Count > 0)
{
foundHandle = newHandles[0];
}
return foundHandle;
});
driver.SwitchTo().Window(popupWindowHandle);
// Do whatever you need to on the popup browser, then...
driver.Close();
driver.SwitchTo().Window(currentHandle);
Alternatively, if you're using the .NET bindings, there's a PopupWindowFinder
class in the WebDriver.Support assembly that is specifically designed to do these operations for you. Using that class is much simpler.
// Get the current window handle so you can switch back later.
string currentHandle = driver.CurrentWindowHandle;
// Find the element that triggers the popup when clicked on.
IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[@id='webtraffic_popup_start_button']"));
// The Click method of the PopupWindowFinder class will click
// the desired element, wait for the popup to appear, and return
// the window handle to the popped-up browser window. Note that
// you still need to switch to the window to manipulate the page
// displayed by the popup window.
PopupWindowFinder finder = new PopupWindowFinder(driver);
string popupWindowHandle = finder.Click(element);
driver.SwitchTo().Window(popupWindowHandle);
// Do whatever you need to on the popup browser, then...
driver.Close();
// Switch back to parent window
driver.SwitchTo().Window(currentHandle);
If the lastly opened window is your target then simply do the following after the click
driver.SwitchTo().Window(driver.WindowHandles.ToList().Last());
EDIT
//You may need to go back to parent window to perform additional actions;
// to the new window
driver.SwitchTo().Window(driver.WindowHandles.ToList().Last());
// to the new window
driver.SwitchTo().Window(driver.WindowHandles.ToList().First());
//or
driver.SwitchTo().DefaultContent();
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