New Selenium IDE – Using ‘webdriver choose cancel on visible prompt’ command for cancelling the prompt

Refer the article New Selenium IDE – Commands (Selenese), for the complete list of Selenium IDE commands and their practical demonstrations.

webdriver choose cancel on visible prompt is one of the commands in Selenium IDE.

The purpose of webdriver choose cancel on visible prompt command in Selenium IDE, is to cancel the prompt when it is actually displayed.

In this article, I am going to practically demonstrate webdriver choose cancel on visible prompt command in Selenium IDE  for cancelling the prompt when it is displayed:

Note: As shown in the above screenshot, the prompt dialog has ‘Text Field’, ‘OK’ and ‘Cancel’ buttons.

Let’s get started.

New Selenium IDE – Using ‘webdriver choose cancel on visible prompt’ command for cancelling the prompt

Follow the below steps for practicing webdriver choose cancel on visible prompt command in Selenium IDE along with me:

1) Execute the open command in Selenium IDE as explained in the previous article: Selenium IDE – open command

2) Now click on the second row in the Selenium IDE’s Test Script Editor Box as shown below:

3) While the second row is selected in step 2, enter the Selenium IDE command ‘click’ to the Command box field, enter the id locating strategy id=prompt into the Target box field as shown below:

Note: The locating strategy id=prompt is for locating the ‘GetPrompt’ button on the http://omayo.blogspot.com/ URL page (Shown at the beginning of the article).

We are doing this to click on the ‘GetPrompt’ button, which ultimately displays the prompt dialog.

4) Select the third row in Selenium IDE Script Editor box, and enter the command ‘webdriver choose cancel on visible prompt’ to the Command box field as shown below:

5) Click on ‘Run current test’ option and observe that the execution got passed:

We have checked that the required prompt dialog got displayed and is canceled successfully.

Note: We won’t be able to see it visually, but the prompt has been actually canceled.

Here concludes the practical demonstration of webdriver choose cancel on visible prompt command in Selenium IDE.

In the next article, I will practically demonstrate another Selenium IDE command.

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Refer the article New Selenium IDE – Commands (Selenese), for the complete list of Selenium IDE commands and their practical demonstrations.