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once a popup window has been selected, all | |
| commands go to that window. To select the main window again, use null | |
| as the target. | |
| <p> | |
| Window locators provide different ways of specifying the window object: | |
| by title, by internal JavaScript "name," or by JavaScript variable. | |
| </p><ul><li><strong>title</strong>=<em>My Special Window</em>: | |
| Finds the window using the text that appears in the title bar. Be careful; | |
| two windows can share the same title. If that happens, this locator will | |
| just pick one. | |
| </li><li><strong>name</strong>=<em>myWindow</em>: | |
| Finds the window using its internal JavaScript "name" property. This is the second | |
| parameter "windowName" passed to the JavaScript method window.open(url, windowName, windowFeatures, replaceFlag) | |
| (which Selenium intercepts). | |
| </li><li><strong>var</strong>=<em>variableName</em>: | |
| Some pop-up windows are unnamed (anonymous), but are associated with a JavaScript variable name in the current | |
| application window, e.g. "window.foo = window.open(url);". In those cases, you can open the window using | |
| "var=foo". | |
| </li></ul><p> | |
| If no window locator prefix is provided, we'll try to guess what you mean like this:</p><p>1.) if windowID is null, (or the string "null") then it is assumed the user is referring to the original window instantiated by the browser).</p><p>2.) if the value of the "windowID" parameter is a JavaScript variable name in the current application window, then it is assumed | |
| that this variable contains the return value from a call to the JavaScript window.open() method.</p><p>3.) Otherwise, selenium looks in a hash it maintains that maps string names to window "names".</p><p>4.) If <em>that</em> fails, we'll try looping over all of the known windows to try to find the appropriate "title". | |
| Since "title" is not necessarily unique, this may have unexpected behavior.</p><p>If you're having trouble figuring out the name of a window that you want to manipulate, look at the Selenium log messages | |
| which identify the names of windows created via window.open (and therefore intercepted by Selenium). You will see messages | |
| like the following for each window as it is opened:</p><p><span id="cbc_1" x-lang="CSharp" codeLanguage="CSharp"><div class="highlight-title"><span class="highlight-copycode" onkeypress="javascript:CopyColorizedCodeCheckKey(this.parentNode, event);" tabindex="0" onmouseover="CopyCodeChangeIcon(this)" onmouseout="CopyCodeChangeIcon(this)" onclick="javascript:CopyColorizedCode(this.parentNode);"><img style="margin-right: 5px;" src="../icons/CopyCode.gif" />Copy</span>C#</div><div class="code"><pre xml:space="preserve">debug: window.open call intercepted; window ID (which you can use with selectWindow()) <span class="highlight-keyword">is</span> <span class="highlight-literal">"myNewWindow"</span></pre></div></span></p><p>In some cases, Selenium will be unable to intercept a call to window.open (if the call occurs during or before the "onLoad" event, for example). | |
| (This is bug SEL-339.) In those cases, you can force Selenium to notice the open window's name by using the Selenium openWindow command, using | |
| an empty (blank) url, like this: openWindow("", "myFunnyWindow").</p></div><p /><b>Namespace:</b> <a href="N_Selenium.htm">Selenium</a><br /><b>Assembly:</b> <span sdata="assembly">ThoughtWorks.Selenium.Core</span> (in ThoughtWorks.Selenium.Core.dll) Version: 2.21.0.0 (2.21.0.0)<h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(syntaxToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(syntaxToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="syntaxToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Syntax</span></h1><div id="syntaxSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style=""><div id="syntaxCodeBlocks" class="code"><span codeLanguage="CSharp"><table><tr><th>C#</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><span class="keyword">void</span> <span class="identifier">SelectWindow</span>( | |
| <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">string</a> <span class="parameter">windowID</span> | |
| )</pre></td></tr></table></span><span codeLanguage="VisualBasicDeclaration"><table><tr><th>Visual Basic</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><span class="keyword">Sub</span> <span class="identifier">SelectWindow</span> ( _ | |
| <span class="parameter">windowID</span> <span class="keyword">As</span> <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">String</a> _ | |
| )</pre></td></tr></table></span><span codeLanguage="ManagedCPlusPlus"><table><tr><th>Visual C++</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><span class="keyword">void</span> <span class="identifier">SelectWindow</span>( | |
| <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">String</a>^ <span class="parameter">windowID</span> | |
| )</pre></td></tr></table></span></div><div id="parameters"><h4 class="subHeading">Parameters</h4><dl paramName="windowID"><dt><span class="parameter">windowID</span></dt><dd>Type: <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s1wwdcbf" target="_blank">System<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cs">.</span><span class="vb">.</span><span class="cpp">::</span><span class="nu">.</span><span class="fs">.</span></span>String</a><br />the JavaScript window ID of the window to select</dd></dl></div></div><h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(seeAlsoToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(seeAlsoToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="seeAlsoToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />See Also</span></h1><div id="seeAlsoSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style=""><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="T_Selenium_ISelenium.htm">ISelenium Interface</a></div><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="N_Selenium.htm">Selenium Namespace</a></div></div></div><div id="footer"><div class="footerLine"><img width="100%" height="3px" src="../icons/footer.gif" alt="Footer image" title="Footer image" /></div><A NAME="feedback"></A><span id="fb" class="feedbackcss"></span><p />Send comments on this topic to | |
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