Handling Alerts

On this page you'll learn how to handle alerts with Simple Selenium

Introduction

Sometimes when building automation scripts, you'll need to deal with popup alerts. Handling alerts with Simple Selenium is dead simple, which you'll learn all about on this page.

Simple Selenium Alerts

Interacting with alerts in Simple Selenium is simple. See the example below, which visits an alert test page & handles the alert:

#Start chrome webdriver with custom options
driver=SimpleSelenium("chrome",save_profile=True,profile_name="myAwesomeProfile",save_logs_in_file=True,maximized=False)

#Visit Alert Test Page
driver.visit("https://testpages.herokuapp.com/styled/alerts/alert-test.html")

#Waits 2 seconds
time.sleep(2)

#Clicks "Show Prompt Box" btn
driver.by_id('promptexample').click()

#Waits 1 second
time.sleep(1)

#You can access the Alerts class with driver.alerts

#Writes text to alert box
driver.alerts.write("Some text to type")

#Accepts alert box
driver.alerts.accept()

List of All Alert Functions

Below, are a list of all alert-based functions that Simple Selenium offers.

Accept Alert Box

To accept an alert box:

driver.alerts.accept() #Accepts alert box

#Default options:
retry_if_fail=True #Whether or not to retry if handling alert fails
max_retries=5 #Max number of retries before returning False (if retry_if_fail==True)
delay_for_each_retry=1 #Time delay between each retry in seconds (if retry_if_fail==True)

driver.alerts.accept(retry_if_fail=False) #Doesn't retry if initial attempt to handle alert fails

Dismiss Alert Box

To dismiss an alert box:

driver.alerts.dismiss() #Accepts alert box

#Default options:
retry_if_fail=True #Whether or not to retry if handling alert fails
max_retries=5 #Max number of retries before returning False (if retry_if_fail==True)
delay_for_each_retry=1 #Time delay between each retry in seconds (if retry_if_fail==True)

driver.alerts.dismiss(retry_if_fail=False) #Doesn't retry if initial attempt to handle alert fails

Write To Alert Box

To write text to an alert box:

driver.alerts.write("Text to write") #Writes text to an alert box

#Default options:
retry_if_fail=True #Whether or not to retry if handling alert fails
max_retries=5 #Max number of retries before returning False (if retry_if_fail==True)
delay_for_each_retry=1 #Time delay between each retry in seconds (if retry_if_fail==True)

driver.alerts.write("Text to write",retry_if_fail=False) #Doesn't retry if initial attempt to handle alert fails