Handling Model Dialogs in IE through Selenium Webdriver - selenium

I have a application in which my pop-ups appear as Model Dialogs. My Application works only in IE.
No matter what different types of switches I use (switchToActiveContent, switchToWindow, switchtoFrame) I'm not able to switch my control to the new Model Dialog.
The solutions I've overcome is- Handling the Model Dialog through Robot Classes. But, I don't want to just handle and close the popup but perform actual operations and functions on it (my model pop-up has Web objects inside it)
Is there a definitive solution for this? Can Selenium WebDriver can't handle Model Popup dialogs at all?

Try using below code
string BaseWindow = driver.CurrentWindowHandle;

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How to handle window open prompt(native) in webdriver.io

I am using webdriver.io framework. At my application, I have a button that opens a Windows Open prompt (Native), and there I need to choose a folder/file and click Open.
Then returning to my application and continue.
Is there a way to move focus on to this window and control it (Select a path and click Open)?
If not- Is there any other solution someone can offer?
The short answer is probably not, you can't control native dialogs from webdriver.
If it's a file input type for which you want to set a file, you might possibly use webdriver to evaluate a piece of javascript to set the HTMLInputElement.files value of the input element.
This works in modern browsers as mentioned in the mozilla docs

Is the Selenium click() recognized as human or automation?

My scenario which produces the question goes something like below:
I enter a webpage via normal means, next I press on a button, to start a HTML5 application on this webpage, this application is inside an iFrame. On application start I'm being prompted to either turn the sound on or off. At this point there are two possible outcomes:
1. When I answer this prompt manually, new buttons appear in the application window, as expected.
2. When I answer this prompt through automation via Appium, new buttons do not appear.
Now to the question:
To answer the prompt I use the click() method from Selenium. Is it possible that this click() is not considered to be executed by a human and therefore doesn't trigger necessary things? And since I don't have access to the source of the application can I force the Selenium click() to look exactly like a human click?
Here is the code I use to execute the mentioned click:
//Application loading up, hence the sleep
Thread.sleep(5000);
AppiumTestBase.getDriver().switchTo().frame("e_iframe");
Thread.sleep(5000);
WebElement soundOff = AppiumTestBase.getDriver().findElement(By.id("soundOff"));
AppiumTestBase.getStandardWaitTime().until(elementToBeClickable(soundOff));
soundOff.click();
The program is able to find and switch in to the iFrame, there are no cross-origin issues either. The AppiumTestBase is just there for initializing the driver, setup capabilities etc. I also tried clicking the element via Actions and JavaScript, but there was no change in behavior.
In C# a workaround I've found to actually take control of the mouse and move it/click with it is to use "Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting" for the Keyboard/Mouse libraries. From there, you can tell it "Mouse.Click(new Point(X, Y));"and it will move your mouse to that location and click.
Sample Code:
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting;
var soundOff = AppiumTestBase.getDriver().findElement(By.id("soundOff"));
Mouse.Click(new Point(soundOff.Bounds.X, soundOff.Bounds.Y));

Selenium Replicating mouse Movement & clicking

I am relatively new to Selenium and it's capabilities So far I have found it's just the tool to use for automated regression testing for a web application. And it's for this regression testing suite that I am in the process of building that I have come to a problem. In the web app I have a page that displays a Jquery Datatable with some rows in it. Each row is bound with a context menu. That pop's up as a DIV floating on the top most Z-order, with absolute positioning all controlled with Jquery.
What I am attempting to do in selenium is to physically use this menu so that I am able to warp it with the appropriate regression tests. I have has some success with using the Actions class to call the context menu up. What I am not able to do is to have the mouse move to the menu Items can click them. I have been trying to use the MoveByOffset method but I don't seem to be having any luck in getting it to click on anything in the menu. I also have had no luck in working out where on the page the mouse is currently located thus not able to prove is anything is actually happening.
any help or advise on this will be gratefully received.
Thanking you all in-advance.
This is the code that I am currently using to attempt to drive this context menu. the values in the MoveByOffset have literally been every combination of 10 & -10. to try and hit the first menu item.
public void ClickAction_myPOTSIcontextmenu(IWebElement Row)
{
Actions builder = new Actions(this._driver);
IAction action = builder.MoveToElement(Row).ContextClick().MoveByOffset(-10,-10).Click().Build();
action.Perform();
}
Hope this helps,
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("selector_for_element"));
Locatable hoverItem = (Locatable) element;
Mouse mouse = ((HasInputDevices) driver).getMouse();
mouse.click(hoverItem.getCoordinates());

How to get Selenium to respond to Chrome's site init popup?

I am trying out Selenium with ChromeDriver to automate some audio/video tests.
But When I fireup the Chrome Browser with my app it asks me the question http:... wants to use your camera and microphone Allow Deny Options I want to click on Allow and proceed with the scripting on the site. But I cannot proceed without selecting Allow. Unfortunately Chrome pops up this question in a sort of Non-DOM format that I am not able to do a driver.findElement the obvious way and respond with a "click" on the "Allow" option. Has anyone of you encountered this situation and what is the best way to deal with this ?
Cheers !
-- Brian
See this answer (print dialog) or this answer ("Run As..." dialog).
Different dialogs, but the reason (in short, WebDriver can't handle these dialogs) and possible solutions are absolutely the same:
The Robot class, it allows you to "press" programatically anything on the keyboard (or clicking blindly) and therefore getting rid of the dialog by, say, pressing Enter or Esc. However, as told above, any advanced interaction is dependant on OS / language / printer.
// press Escape programatically - the print dialog must have focus, obviously
Robot r = new Robot();
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ESCAPE);
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ESCAPE);
You can, of course, type anything via this class, too.
AutoIt. It's a Windows program useful for handling any system-level automation. Same dependancy as above.
Note that (as far as I know) you can't really check whether the dialog showed up or not, so you won't be able to catch a possible error if it runs on a computer without a camera...
If you're using a ChromeDriver you can get to any 'native' popups using
Alert popup = webDriver.switchTo().alert();
// here you can examine the text within the alert using popup.getText();
popup.accept();

Selenium via Eclipse: is it possible to move the cursor position?

I am using the selenium plug in for eclipse to automate the testing of newly created websites. I am trying to click a button that is in a menu and only visible when the cursor is located over the menu.
Is it possible to move the cursor so that this button can be clicked ?
It will depend a little on how the menu has been implemented (i.e. the event that will trigger your button to appear) but you should look at the focus and mouseOver methods for selenium.
I.e. do something like
this.selenium.mouseOver(element);
where element refers to the menu and then do a click on the button. If mouseOver does not work (i.e. the button does not become available) try focus instead.
It's unclear if you're using Selenium RC or Selenium 2 and WebDriver.
I can only speak to the latter, but you can use Actions to move the mouse and click. The basic idea is you define an object that is a series of actions, and then you perform those actions.
An introduction on how to use these is at http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/AdvancedUserInteractions, and a good writeup with Python examples is http://www.theautomatedtester.co.uk/blog/2011/selenium-advanced-user-interactions.html
It sounds like in your case, you would have something like:
Actions menuClick = new Actions(driver);
builder.MoveToElement(menuElement)
.MoveToElement(buttonElement)
.click(buttonElement)
Action menuClick = builder.build();
menuClick.perform();