How do I load a javascript file into the DOM using selenium?

Question

I\'m using Selenium WebDriver to try to insert an external javascript file into the DOM, rather than type out the entire thing into executeScript.

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Answer 1

According to this: http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/appendix_migrating_from_rc_to_webdriver.jsp

You might be using the browserbot to obtain a handle to the current window or document of the test. Fortunately, WebDriver always evaluates JS in the context of the current window, so you can use “window” or “document” directly.

Alternatively, you might be using the browserbot to locate elements. In WebDriver, the idiom for doing this is to first locate the element, and then pass that as an argument to the Javascript. Thus:

So does the following work in webdriver?

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
((JavascriptExecutor) driver)
  .executeScript("var s=window.document.createElement('script');\
  s.src='somescript.js';\
  window.document.head.appendChild(s);");