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How to check the text on an overlay using Selenium?

I'm clicking in on a button on a webpage using Selenium. The button creates a file which can be downloaded now. For this, a overlay is shown in Internet Explorer (yes, I HAVE to use this browser, it's a requirement).
Now I have to check the text on the overlay ("öffnen oder speichern" see my screenshot). I can imagine that it there is a solution using JavaScriptExecutor but I simply couldn't found a solution.
I also tried to find it in innerHTML-without success.
It's not an alert so I can't use Driver.switchTo().alert();
My Code still doesn't contain more than clicking on a button using XPath.
Actions action = new Actions(driver);
JavascriptExecutor jsExecutor = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
String exportButtonXPath = generalHelper.getProperty("buttonCSVExportXPath");
WebElement exportButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath(exportButtonXPath));
action.click(exportButton).perform();
Do you have a solution how can test the text on this popup?

Actually, it is not related to the web browser any more. You need to interact with it as a desktop window.
->If you want to click it using selenium, you can locate its coordinates and use click by coordinates using selenium.
->If you want to accept to download it, you can find a capability to accept downloading by default (except IE).
->If you want to check the text value, for sure you've to automate it as desktop not as a web.

Selenium script too slow with new FirefoxDriver()

I doing automation on a particular website(say xyz.com). When I open the URL manually, it lands me onto a login page as expected and I am able to login there as well.
However, when I am automating the scenario by creating new instance of Firefox using new FirefoxDriver(), login page opens quickly but; when I click on login button it takes almost 2 minutes to navigate to a homepage.
I tried using a new profile but it didnt help.
I am using Selenium 2.44.0 on MAC with Java(Eclipse).
Please help.

I had the same problem with Selenium. What I ended up doing was making the webdriver wait till the page title changes(to homepage) using Expected Conditions.
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 15);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.titleContains(": My Expected Page title"));
I would suggest you to have a look here:
driver.wait() throws IllegalMonitorStateException
Wait for page load in Selenium

How can i select text from browser screen with help of mouse events in selenium?

I am trying to select text which is already present on the browser.
I want to select that particular text and perform right click operation on it.
However, the page on the browser has disabled right click.
How can I select text in such situation?

Using a normal web browser without Selenium the only workaround that I can think about is to disable javascript to stop the script that prevents you from right clicking. So it should also work with a browser controlled by Selenium Webdriver.
I don't know if it will be OK for you because your website may be relying on javascript for essential features.
However if you don't need Javascript for your Selenium test you can try the following when you launch your driver :
FirefoxProfile p = new FirefoxProfile();
p.setPreference("javascript.enabled", false);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(p);
I assume that you already know how to perform a right click because your question was only about dealing with the problem preventing you from doing this right click. But if not, you can also refer to this answer :
Select an Option from the Right-Click Menu in Selenium Webdriver - Java
Edit:
I'm sorry I really thought you could use Selenium actions to select the text you want but after some tests I didn't manage to perform a click and drag to select a text. The only thing that works for me in Chrome or Firefox is the following. It looks for a <p>which contains some text and then perform a double click to select a word.
driver.get("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)");
WebElement text = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//p[contains(text(),'Java is')]"));
Actions select = new Actions(driver);
select.doubleClick(text).build().perform();
However it only highlighs one word in the html element that contains your text, so it's not really convenient.
I've also tried to do Ctrl+F and type the text so that the web browser automatically select it but the browser doesn't do anything when executing :
Actions search = new Actions(driver);
search .sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,"+f")).sendKeys("Java is").build().perform();
It seems that Selenium can only send keys events to the html elements and not to the browser (in the case of ctrl+F).
I don't really see a solution for now, let's see if someone else can find a workaround. It's an interesting issue, it would also be useful for me to select a text the way you described

Move to middle of the element
Actions builder = new Actions(webDriverObject);
builder.moveToElement(element).build().perform();
Move to starting of element, click and hold, move to end
Integer width = element.getSize().getWidth();
Actions newBuilder = new Actions(webDriverObject);
newBuilder.moveByOffset(width/2,0).clickAndHold.moveByOffset(width,0).release().build().perform();

To close webengage or clickdesk poup using selenium webdriver

I got a webengage or clickdesk alert popup but that is intermittent, so I can't check everytime or wait for it to load, everytime I enter a new webpage because that would make my test case run very slow. Is there any workaround for it ( may be blocking it).

For WebEngage, all you got to do is call the respective clear() methods for the products being used on the site (to get rid of the corresponding UI components), as underneath:
webengage.feedback.clear();
webengage.notification.clear();
webengage.survey.clear();
However, this would only work when WebEngage has loaded on the page. If you'd like to completely disable loading of WebEngage products, insert this code in head tag of the page you are testing:
var window._weq = {};
_weq['webengage.defaultRender'] = false;
You can do a lot more cool stuff like the above using our JavaScript API: http://docs.webengage.com/api/js-api-v-4.0.html
Avlesh | CEO, WebEngage

If you are using ClickDesk on your website and would like to delete the Proactive rules which pop up the chat window randomly, then these can be deleted or edited to change the frequency from this link on your ClickDesk Dashboard - https://my.clickdesk.com/#proactive.
In case, you do not want the chat widget to show up at all until clicked on a text link or an image link then, you can add our Custom image link or text link code on your website, this would enable the chat widget only when clicked on it. You can find this link here - https://my.clickdesk.com/#departments/default.
If you have further questions or concerns with regards to ClickDesk, you can visit our website www.clickdesk.com and chat with one of our agents online.
Thanks
Mike Evans
ClickDesk Corporation

Easiest way to "browse" to a page and submit form in Java

What I need to do is browse to a webpage, login, then browse to another webpage on that site that requires you to be logged in, so it needs to save cookies. After that, I need to click an element on that page, in which I would fill out the form and get the message that the webpage returns to me. The reason I need to actually go to the page and click the button as suppose to just navigating directly to the link is because the you are assigned a session ID every time you log in and click the link, and its always different. The button looks like this, its not a normal href link:
<span id=":tv" idlink="" class="sA" tabindex="0" role="link">Next</span>
Anyway, what would be the easiest way to do this? Thanks.
Update:
After trying HTMLunit, and other headless browser libraries, it doesnt seem that its happening using anything "headless." Another thing that I recently found out about this page is that that all the HTML is in some weird format... Its all inside a script tag. Here is a sample.
"?ui\x3d2\x26view\x3dss\x26mset\x3dmain\x26ver\x3d-68igm85d1771\x26am\x3d!Zsl-0RZ-XLv0BO3aNKsL0sgMg3nH10t5WrPgJSU8CYS-KNWlyrLmiW3HvC5ykER_n_5dDw\x26fri"],"http://example.com/?ctx\x3d%67mail\x26hl\x3den",,0,"Gmail","Gmail",[["us","c130f0854ca2c2bb",[["n"],["m","New features!"],["u"],["k","0"],["p","1000:500000,10,200000,5,100000,3,75000,2,0,1"],["h","https://survey.googleratings.com/wix/p1679258.aspx?l\x3d1033"],["at","query,5,contacts,5,adv,5,cf,5,default,20"],["v","https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ra8HG6MkOXY?showinfo\x3d0"],
When I do inspect element on the button, the HTML code that I posted above for the button comes up, but not when doing view source. Basically, what I am going to need to do is use some sort of GUI and have the user navigate to the link and then have the program fill out the info. Does anyone know how I can do this? Thanks.

Have a look at the 5 Minute Getting Started Guide for Selenium: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/GettingStarted

On the login page, look at the form's HTML to see the url it posts to and the url parameters. Then request that url with the same parameters filled in with correct info, and make sure to save all the cookie headers to send to the second page. Then use an html parser to find your link. There are several html parsers available on sourceforge, and you could even try java's built in xml parsers, though if the site has even a tiny html mistake they will glitch.
EDIT didn't notice the fact that it is not a normal link. In that case you will need to look at the site's javascript to see where the link leads. If the link requires javascript to run, it gets more complicated. Java is not able to execute browser javascript, but I found a library called DJ native swing which includes a web browser class that you can add to jframes. It uses your native browser to render, and to run javascript.

This should be possible in Selenium as others have noted.
I have used Selenium to login then crawl a site and discover every permuation of values for every form on the site (30+ forms). These values are later used to fill and submit the form with a specific perumation of values. This site was very JS/jQuery heavy and I used Selenium's built-in support of javascript executor, css selectors, and XPath to accomplish this.
I implemented HtmlUnit and HttpUnit as faster alternatives, but found they were not as reliable as Selenium given the JS semantics of the site I was crawling.
It's hard to give you code on how to accomplish it because your Selenium implementation will be quite page-specific and I can't look at the page you're coding against to figure out what's going on with that button script junk. However, I have include some possibly relevant selenium code (Java) snippets:
Element element = driver.findElements(By.id(value)); //find element on page
List<Element> buttons = parent.findElements(By.xpath("./tr/td/button")); //find child element
button.click();
element.submit() //submit enclosing form
element.sendKeys(text); //enter text in an input
String elementText = (String) ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("return arguments[0].innerText || arguments[0].textContent", element); //interact with a selenium element via JS
If you are coding similar functions on different pages, then PageObjects behind interfaces can help.
The link Anew posted is a good starting point and good ol' StackOverflow has answers to just about any Selenium problem ever.

Instead of trying to browse around programmatically, try executing the login request and save the cookies then set those in the next request to the form post.

HTMLUnit is pretty bad at processing JavaScript, the Rhino JS library produces often errors (actually no errors is much the exception). I would advise to use Selenium, which is basically a framework to control headless browsers (chrome, firefox based).
For your question, the following code would do the work
selenium.open(myurl);
selenium.click("id=:tv");
You then have to wait for the page to load
selenium.waitForPageToLoad(someTime);

I would recommend htmlunit any day. It's a great library.
First, check out their web page(http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/) to get htmlunit up and running. Make sure you use the latest snapshot(2.12 when writing this)
Try these settings to ignore pretty much any obstacle:
WebClient webClient = new WebClient(BrowserVersion.FIREFOX_17);
webClient.getOptions().setRedirectEnabled(true);
webClient.getOptions().setCssEnabled(false);
webClient.getOptions().setThrowExceptionOnScriptError(false);
webClient.getOptions().setThrowExceptionOnFailingStatusCode(false);
webClient.getOptions().setUseInsecureSSL(true);
webClient.getOptions().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webClient.getCookieManager().setCookiesEnabled(true);
Then when fetching your page, make sure you wait for background Javascript before doing anything with the page, like posting a login form:
//Get Page
HtmlPage page1 = webClient.getPage("https://login-url/");
//Wait for background Javascript
webClient.waitForBackgroundJavaScript(10000);
//Get first form on page
HtmlForm form = page1.getForms().get(0);
//Get login input fields using input field name
HtmlTextInput userName = form.getInputByName("UserName");
HtmlPasswordInput password = form.getInputByName("Password");
//Set input values
userName.setValueAttribute("MyUserName");
password.setValueAttribute("MyPassword");
//Find the first button in form using name, id or xpath
HtmlElement button = (HtmlElement) form.getFirstByXPath("//button");
//Post by clicking the button and cast the result, login arrival url, to a new page and repeat what you did with page1 or something else :)
HtmlPage page2 = (HtmlPage) button.click();
//Profit
System.out.println(page2.asXml());
I hope this basic example will help you!