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Manish
Manish

Reputation: 11

How do I negotiate alert boxes in Watir?

I am trying to create an automation script for a website using Ruby with Watir.

I ran into a situation where I have to choose 'Yes' or 'No' in an alert box. The problem is that I am not able to identify the alert box as a component of the page so that I can obtain its identifier and use it to select an option.

I found some information how to create an alert box, but I need to navigate through one. Can anyone help me out?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1175

Answers (3)

Jay Haase
Jay Haase

Reputation: 1989

You can use these clean watir calls:

  • browser.alert.ok
  • browser.alert.close

See Official Framework Documentation for more info.

Upvotes: 0

Josep Valls
Josep Valls

Reputation: 5560

The approach suggested by Austin Taylor may work fine, but I think that for a more general solution you need to deal with Popups at a OS level as Chuck suggests.

If anyone reaches this page seeking this sort of answer there are different solutions listed here: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/JavaScript+Pop+Ups

Upvotes: 1

Austin Taylor
Austin Taylor

Reputation: 5477

It sounds like you have a confirm box if you can choose two options ("OK" or "Cancel"). If you want to simulate clicking "OK", you have to put something like this before you trigger the confirm.

# return true for confirm to simulate clicking OK
b.execute_script("window.confirm = function() {return true}")

If you just have an alert with a single "OK" button, do this.

# don't return anything for alert
b.execute_script("window.alert = function() {}")

See this page for more examples.

Upvotes: 3

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