Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Identifying and handling a pop-up window by its title

Many a times developers don't assign the name attribute to pop-up windows. In such cases, we can use its window handle attribute. However, the handle attributes keep changing and it becomes difficult to identify the pop-up window, especially when there is more than one pop-up window open. Using the handle and title attributes of the page displayed in a pop-up window, we can build a more reliable way to identify the pop-up windows.

In this recipe, we will use the title attribute to identify the pop-up window and then perform operations on it.

How to do it...

We will create a test that retrieves the handles of all the open windows in the current driver context. We will iterate through this list ...