“Why Does Selenium Not Work With My Alert?

Alan Richardson

www.SeleniumSimplified.com

Why Can’t Selenium Handle the Alert in my Application?

The Answer:

Because it is not an alert

If you can “Inspect Element” on it, then it is not an alert

These Are Alerts:

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_popup.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_alert

http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_confirm

These are not Alerts

http://jquerytools.org/demos/overlay/modal-dialog.html http://tympanus.net/Development/ModalWindowEffects/ http://www.zkoss.org/zkdemo/window/modal_dialog

More Info

YouTube Video on this topic● http://youtu.be/hiN6ugscUco

Blog Post● http://seleniumsimplified.com/?p=666

http://seleniumsimplified.com/2013/10/02/faq-why-does-selenium-not-work-with-this-alert/

Alan Richardson uk.linkedin.com/in/eviltester

Independent Test Consultant based in the UK. He offers training and consultancy in Selenium WebDriver, Exploratory and Technical web testing.

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