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Proper handling of alerts and prompts is still being worked on in WebDriver, but a common workaround is to overwrite the window functions using execute_script(), i.e.

browser.execute_script("window.alert = function(msg) { window.lastAlert = msg; }")
browser.button(:id => "trigger-alert").click
browser.execute_script("return window.lastAlert") #=> "the message"

Since I'd like to avoid a bunch of monkey patches floating around (a common problem in the Watir community), I've added some helper methods as an optional require - after the next release you should be able to do:

require "watir-webdriver/extensions/alerts"

browser.alert do
  browser.button(:id => "alert").click 
end #=> "the alert message"

browser.confirm(true) do
  browser.button(:id => "confirm").click
end #=> "the confirm message"  

browser.prompt("returned value") do
  browser.button(:id => "prompt").click 
end #=> { :message => "foo", :default => "bar" }

Note that this is temporary and the API may be removed in the future when the issue is resolved in WebDriver.

jarib 2010-09-07 21:02:59

I had an error using browser.alert and I fixed it with a hack, but you might want to had a look: http://gist.github.com/569969

rtacconi 2010-09-08 11:10:23

The current behaviour is correct - if the button doesn't exist, it should raise an error. The idea is that you will write your own code in the block that will trigger the alert.

jarib 2010-09-09 13:58:12

Sorry, I was calling it in the wrong place. However I tried your code but does not click any alert: assert_exists': unable to locate element, using {:value=>"OK", :tag_name=>"button"}

rtacconi 2010-09-13 16:15:04

The code in the block should contain the action needed to *trigger* the alert. Check out the tests here http://github.com/jarib/watir-webdriver/blob/master/spec/alert_spec.rb and the corresponding HTML here http://github.com/jarib/watir-webdriver/blob/master/spec/html/alerts.html for an example of how it works.

jarib 2010-09-13 21:57:21

Answer 2

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I know that the iMacros for Firefox addon can click these alert boxes. Maybe you can combine it with our setup?

SamMeiers 2010-09-07 23:33:27

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