Selenium 2.0 provides a class called Alert to handle popups.
The following popup will greet the user with Hello World! popup when they click a button.
<form>
<input name="alertButton" type="button" onclick="alert('Hello World!')" value="Greetings Alert"/>
</form>In selenium we switch to the alert box:
Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();The alert class has the following methods:
The following tests the alert box on this page.
package jesg;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.Alert;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class AlertTest {
private WebDriver driver;
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
}
@After
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
driver.quit();
}
@Test
public void testAlert() {
driver.get("http://jesg.github.io/java/2014/04/21/selenium-alert.html");
driver.findElement(By.name("alertButton")).click();
Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
System.out.println(alert.getText());
alert.accept();
}
}The full source can be found on github.