How to deal with ModalDialog using selenium webdriver?

Question

I am unable to switch to Modal Dialog of given example

http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/showModalDialog2.htm

I don\'t kno

Answer 1

Solution in R (RSelenium): I had a popup dialog (which is dynamically generated) and hence undetectable in the original page source code Here are methods which worked for me:

Method 1: Simulating Pressing keys for Tabs and switching to that modal dialog My current key is focussed on a dropdown button behind the modal dialog box

remDr$sendKeysToActiveElement(list(key = "tab"))
Sys.sleep(5)
remDr$sendKeysToActiveElement(list(key = "enter"))
Sys.sleep(15)

Method 2: Bring focus to the frame(or iframe) if you can locate it

date_filter_frame <- remDr$findElement(using = "tag name", 'iframe')
date_filter_frame$highlightElement()

Sys.sleep(5)

remDr$switchToFrame(date_filter_frame)

Sys.sleep(2)

Now you can search for elements in the frame. Remember to put adequate Sys.sleep in between commands for elements to load properly (just in case)

date_filter_element <- remDr$findElement(using = "xpath", paste0("//*[contains(text(), 'Week to Date')]"))
date_filter_element$highlightElement()