How to Handle HTML Windows in ASM Scenarios

Using selectWindow in ASM

Selenium IDE classic (2.9.1) and Selenium IDE TNG (3.0+) handle windows differently. So, if you use the newer Selenium version available for Chrome, you'll need to edit your selectWindow commands manually.

• Selenium IDE v3+ uses handlers to check which tabs it’s on.

• In the classic version of Selenium, you select the windows with the page title or store the URL of the window.

  • Selenium Classic can’t select windows that itself didn’t open. So windows that a script opened itself, for example, can’t be found. While this is rare, that might explain why you can’t select those windows.

Selecting Windows with Titles

Step	Screenshot
Create a script that opens a window. Grab the name of the newly opened window by inspecting the page source:
Add a pause before selecting the window to make sure it’s actually loaded in the correct title. There’s currently no way to wait for a window to finish loading before selecting it. Add a selectWindow with a target of the title of the page as the following picture shows:	To deselect the current window, repeat the above steps for the new/old window you want to select.

Selecting Windows with href Storing

Step	Screenshot
Go to the page with a window and make sure it also has an href attached to it with a URL. Write the command “storeAttribute	target@href

Selecting Windows with the Same Names

Step	Screenshot
Make sure you’re on the window you want to switch from. Write the command “runScript	document.title = “Whatever the new title of the page is”
In Step 5 in the above example, I’ve also stored the previous name to prove that it changes the title.	As you can see above from the output log, Step 8 echoes the variable “test,” and step 9 echoes the variable “test1”:
Do steps 2-4 of the guide “Selecting Windows with Titles” to select the window you want to select.