Selecting new opened window using “selectWindow” command in selenium IDE is very easy if new window has title or name. Click here to view example of “selectWindow” command with title as a target. If window has title then we can add it’s title in target field with “selectWindow” command and this way selenium
can identify window. But how to handle window which has not any title? Let we consider one scenario for such case. Supposing I am clicking on hyper link and opening new window. New window has not any title and I want to select that window to perform some actions on newly opened window using selenium IDE. How can I do it?
“storeAttribute” command will help us to handle this scenario. look at bellow given example.
(Note : Please set Block Pop-up windows = false before running this test case case. Otherwise bellow given script will not run properly.)
Example of how to handle window without title or name or id in selenium
| New Test | ||
| Command | Target | Value |
| open | http://only-testing-blog.blogspot.com/2013/09/testing.html | |
| click | link=Visit MyTest Page | |
| storeAttribute | link=Visit MyTest Page@target | window1 |
| selectWindow | ${window1} | |
| waitForElementPresent | name=fname | |
| pause | 2000 | |
| highlight | name=fname | |
| type | name=fname | 1st time visit of window1 |
| selectWindow | null | |
| click | link=Visit Testing Page | |
| storeAttribute | link=Visit Testing Page@target | window2 |
| selectWindow | ${window2} | |
| waitForElementPresent | name=vehicle | |
| pause | 2000 | |
| highlight | name=vehicle | |
| click | name=vehicle | |
| selectWindow | ${window1} | |
| pause | 2000 | |
| highlight | name=fname | |
| type | name=fname | 2nd time visit of window1 |
| pause | 2000 | |
| selectWindow | ${window2} | |
| pause | 2000 | |
| highlight | name=gender | |
| click | name=gender | |
| selectWindow | ${window1} | |
| close | ||
| selectWindow | ${window2} | |
| close | ||
Above script is very long so full script description is very lengthy. Let me tell you main commands. 1st of all, i have not used window title or name id to select window. So please consider that new window has not any title or name. I have used ${window1} and ${window2} to select newly opened windows.${window1} and ${window2} are derived from “storeAttribute” command and this way every time, selenium will find targeted window.
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what is select window= null and how to handle this is java/webdriver ?