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Palaima
Palaima

Reputation: 331

webdriver target="_blank"

Page has image with hyperlink and that hyperlink has target="_blank" and every time i press that image loads new firefox and that hyperlink is redirected to that new firefox web and i lose all control of that webpage. Is possilble to remove or change that target="_blank" on hyperlink, bcause i want to load webpage in same webdriver

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

    driver.get("http://www.page.eu/");
    WebElement submit;
    submit = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//img[@alt='page']"));
    submit.click();

that hyperlink have target="_blank" i need to change that target somehow by using webdriver + javascript maybe or what? is it possible?

edited

thanks for suggestions, but still is this problem i tried to make like Grooveek said but no changes

WebElement labels2 = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='http://tahtpage.net']"));
    WebElement aa = (WebElement) ((JavascriptExecutor)  driver).executeScript("labels2.setAttribute('target','_self')",labels2 );
    aa.click();

i have an error org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: null (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

i'm not good at javascrit so i think is problem in that executor

Upvotes: 8

Views: 8579

Answers (6)

vijay shiyani
vijay shiyani

Reputation: 766

I think you should use the SwitchTo().Window as suggested by simeon sinichkin. however, i didn't like his example.Here is simple example.

 driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(baseURL);
 //Get the Main Window Handle
 var baseWindow = driver.CurrentWindowHandle;
 // navigate to another window (_blank)
 driver.FindElement(By.Id("btn_help")).Click();
 Thread.Sleep(2000);
 //switch back to Main Window
 driver.SwitchTo().Window(baseWindow);

hope that helps

Upvotes: 1

Shashank Kadne
Shashank Kadne

Reputation: 8101

Why don't you use:

target="_self"

Upvotes: 0

prestomanifesto
prestomanifesto

Reputation: 12806

Try the following:

WebElement labels2 = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='http://tahtpage.net']"));
WebElement aa = (WebElement) ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('target','_self')",labels2 );
aa.click();

You are getting a null exception because you are using labels2 in your javascript, which doesn't exist in that context. By changing it to arguments[0] Selenium will take the labels2 parameter and reference it in javascript appropriately.

Upvotes: 3

Oleg Strokatyy
Oleg Strokatyy

Reputation: 641

Why don't you wanna use SwitchTo().Window?

Upvotes: 1

Jeremiah Orr
Jeremiah Orr

Reputation: 2630

Instead of clicking on the image, you could just directly go to the URL in the link:

WebElement link = (driver.findElement(By.xpath("//img[@alt='page']/parent::*"));
String href = link.getAttribute("href");
driver.get(href);

Upvotes: 4

Grooveek
Grooveek

Reputation: 10094

Evaluating javascript in the window will help you to suppress target=blank links Here's the example from the Webdriver docs

List<WebElement> labels = driver.findElements(By.tagName("label"));
List<WebElement> inputs = (List<WebElement>) ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(
    "var labels = arguments[0], inputs = []; for (var i=0; i < labels.length; i++){" +
    "inputs.push(document.getElementById(labels[i].getAttribute('for'))); } return inputs;", labels);

Adapt it to modify the DOM to throw target="_blank links"

Upvotes: 1

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