How to handle Alerts/Pop-Ups in Selenium

In this tutorial, we will learn How to handle Alerts/Pop-Ups in Selenium web driver automation.

Alerts:

Alert is a notification message box that displays options to act on it or it will give some kind of information. It may be also used for warning pop-ups when you do specific action on a web page.

How to identify Alerts:

Users cannot do any further actions on the web page until you act on it and you cannot inspect it.

Types of Alerts:

Simple Alert:

In a simple alert, it will display some information or warning and Ok button to click on it.

Simple Alert -How to handle Alerts/Pop-Ups in Selenium

2.Prompt Alert:

In a prompt alert, it will ask some information to enter data in text field along with ‘Ok’ and ‘Cancel’ button

Prompt Alert - How to handle Alerts/Pop-Ups in Selenium

3.Confirmation Alert:

In confirmation alert, it will ask permission to act on it.

Confirmation Alert - How to handle Alerts/Pop-Ups in Selenium

Whenever we get any alerts in a web-based application then we cannot do any action on a web page and we need to handle these alerts to run the test case smoothly. To handle alerts we have to click options present in alerts.

To handle alerts need to initialize alert interface and using alert methods we can handle alerts.

Alert alrt=driver.switchTo().alert();

i. dismiss(): By using this method we can click on the cancel button

alrt.dismiss();

ii. accept(): By using this method we can click on OK button

alrt.accept();

iii. getText(): By using this method we can retrieve alert message

alrt.getText();

iv. sendKeys(): By using this method we can enter data into alert prompt

alrt.sendKeys(“data”);

Please find the below sample script to know how to handle Alerts/Pop-Ups in Selenium

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.Alert;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class HandlingAlerts
{
	@Test
	public void HandlingAlerts() 
	{
		//Initialize reference to driver
		WebDriver driver;
 
		//Setting the properties for chromedriver
		System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","./drivers/chromedriver.exe");
 
		//Initialize the chromedriver for webdriver reference
		driver=new ChromeDriver();
 
		//Launching application
		driver.get("https://automationexplore.com/selenium-automation-practice-page/");
 
		//Setting implicit wait to load all web elements in application
		driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
		
		//Maximize the window
		driver.manage().window().maximize();
 
		//Click the button to get alert popup
		driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@id='alertbutton']")).click();
		
		//Handling alert
		//Initialize alert interface and switch to alert
		
		Alert alt=driver.switchTo().alert();
		
		//To click OK button
		
		alt.accept();
		
		
		//Click the button to get alert popup
		
		driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@id='alertbutton']")).click();
		
		//To click cancel button
		
		alt.dismiss();
		
		
			
	}
}