So, using Selenium, I want to test links on a page and see if they open a new window. They are NOT javascript links, just a basic href "target=_blank". I want to make sure the newly opened window actually loaded a page. I can do all the scripting to get the link clicked, but when i test for page Title, I get the page I'm testing on, not the new window that is on top. How do I target that new window and check to see if THAT page loaded?
thanks
The following worked for me with a form with attribute target="_blank" that sends a POST request on a new window:
// Open the action in a new empty window selenium.getEval("this.page().findElement(\"//form[@id='myForm']\").target='my_window'"); selenium.getEval("selenium.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().open('', 'my_window')"); //The contents load in the previously opened window selenium.click("//form[@id='myForm']//input[@value='Submit']"); Thread.sleep(2000); //Focus in the new window selenium.selectWindow("my_window"); selenium.windowFocus(); /* .. Do something - i.e.: assertTrue(.........); */ //Close the window and back to the main one selenium.close(); selenium.selectWindow(null); selenium.windowFocus(); The html code would be similar to:
<form id="myForm" action="/myAction.do" target="_blank"> <input type="text" name="myText" value="some text"/> <input type="submit" value="Save"/> </form> You've tagged the question RC so I assume it's not Selenium IDE.
You can use something like selenium.selectWindow or selenium.selectPopUp or selenium.windowFocus to target the new window.
A technique I find quite useful is to use Selenium IDE to capture the script and then select Options and then the programming format you require (Java, C# etc.) and then use that snippet as the basis of the RC test.
Based on the name randomization, I guess I can loop through the window names and pick th unknown one. This works, but not tested fully...
public function testMyTestCase() { $this->open("/"); $this->click("link=Sign in"); $this->waitForPageToLoad("30000"); $this->type("email", "xxx@gmail.com"); $this->type("password", "xxx"); $this->click("login"); $this->waitForPageToLoad("30000"); $this->click("link=Resources"); $this->waitForPageToLoad("30000"); $this->click("link=exact:http://100pages.org/"); $cc = $this->getAllWindowNames(); foreach($cc as $v ) { if (strpos($v, "blank")) { $this->selectWindow($v); $this->waitForPageToLoad("30000"); $this->assertRegExp("/100/", $this->getTitle()); } } }