Question

I am am running some selenium tests(ruby) on my web page and as i enter an invalid characters in to a text box i have the JavaScript throw a alert like so

if(isNaN($(this).val()) || Number($(this).val().valueOf() <=0)){
    alert("Please Enter A Number");
}

how can i handle this alert when its made and close the pop up?

i tried to use the wait_for_pop_up() and close() but i think that’s only for browser pop up’s and not JavaScript alerts.

any ideas?

thanks

Answer 1

The documentation isn’t of much help but the Java Docs for Selenium RC seem to show that a getAlert() does exist here. Also this site lists these functions as well:

Processing with Selenium The following commands are available within Selenium for processing Alerts:

• getAlert()
• assertAlert() assertAlertNotPresent()
• assertAlertPresent() storeAlert()
• storeAlertPresent() verifyAlert()
• verifyAlertNotPresent()
• verifyAlertPresent() waitForAlert()
• waitForAlertNotPresent()
• waitForAlertPresent()

The …AlertPresent() and …AlertNotPresent() functions check for the existence or not of an alert – regardless of it’s content. The …Alert() functions allow the caller to specify a pattern which should be matched. The getAlert() method also exists in Selenium RC, and returns the text from the previous Alert displayed. Similar functions are also available for Confirmations