How to operate on an alert prompt using Selenium Python ?
To illustrate alerts, let’s write manual javascript alert and check various methods on the same. We have created an example link – https://ide.w3wiki.org/tryit.php/WXYeMD9tD4
Program –
# import webdriver from selenium import webdriver # import Alert from selenium.webdriver.common.alert import Alert # create webdriver object driver = webdriver.Firefox() # get ide.w3wiki.org driver.get( "https://ide.w3wiki.org / tryit.php / WXYeMD9tD4" ) # create alert object alert = Alert(driver) # get alert text print (alert.text) # accept the alert alert.accept() |
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How to handle alert prompts in Selenium Python ?
Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Alerts are a way to show popups in the browser for either accepting data or displaying data. Selenium provides methods to handle alerts of all kinds. class selenium.webdriver.common.alert.Alert(driver)
handles all alerts in Selenium Python. It contains methods for dismissing, accepting, inputting, and getting text from alert prompts. The two major tasks in alerts are accepting an alert or dismissing a alert.
Selenium provides two methods for the same –
Alert(driver).accept() Alert(driver).dismiss()
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