Having difficulty retrieving the alert text with selenium webdriver

I am currently facing an issue with verifying and dismissing alert text in my code. Despite following the steps to verify the alert text, I encountered failure.

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
            wait.until(ExpectedConditions.alertIsPresent());
            Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
            alertText = alert.getText();

Unfortunately, the alertText is returning as null, causing the next step of asserting the text to fail. Next step:

driver.switchTo().alert().accept();

Surprisingly, accepting the alert proceeds without any problem.

In another peculiar scenario, when debugging in Eclipse, everything works fine. However, errors are thrown during running assertion tests.

A notable difference that I observed is the message displayed in the alert during running, stating: "don't let this page create more messages"

This situation seems quite unusual and puzzling.

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Answer №1

When the message "don't let this page create more messages" is displayed, it's actually a built-in browser feature designed to prevent websites from bombarding users with multiple alerts.

If your code works during debugging but not during actual execution, it could be due to a synchronization issue. Adding a hard wait might help in such cases.

Another way to retrieve text from an alert popup is by using the following method:

public String getJsAlertText()
{
Object txt = ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return window.alert.myAlertText;");
return (String)txt;
}

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