How to not wait for something with Watir-Webdriver

Question

So I\'m writing a watir-webdriver script, and my app is using javascript to present a modal window that I want to interact with. When I click the element that presents the modal

Answer 1

If this is a Alert, Confirm, or Alert type JS popup, see this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8172888/409820

Answer 2

Ruby 1.9.3/ IE 9 - I had a click_no_wait error. Watir would not trigger a click on the Save button, which had to be followed by a click on a java popup 'OK' button that confirmed that the save button had saved the document correctly.

Using these two lines in place of the click_no_wait command gets the code working perfectly:

element.focus 
element.send_keys :return

Thanks DVG. My code -

ie.button(:id, 'MainContent_B_Save').focus
ie.button(:id, 'MainContent_B_Save').send_keys :return 
ie. javascript_dialog.button('OK').click

Answer 3

The answer ended up being, and then handling the necessary waiting manually

element.focus
element.send_keys :return