How to click a link that opens a sign in page on another page/window using Selenium IDE

Question

Hello peeps, newbie here, i'm trying to get the value of a link using document.getelementbyClass/Name & then navigate to the page the link points to in a different window/tab using Selenium IDE. All suggestions gratefully received, thanks

Answer 1

This is rather simple using TestPlan as a front-end to Selenium. In the scripting language it might look something like the below.

GotoURL http://mypage.com/
set %Link% as response //*[@name='myname']/@href
GotoURL %Link%

Using multiple windows requires a few sub-scripts, but it isn't too hard to do once you have the basics working. You can also use the HTMLUnit backend to test since it is faster than using Selenium.

Answer 2

For selecting the window, you can use the selectwindow