Selenium WebDriver and Alert with Node.js

[Ricardo Peres]

Hi!

I asked this in SO, but got no answers. Retrying here.

Using Selenium WebDriver in a Node.js app, I am trying to handle (ignore) any alerts that may be open in a web page. For that, I add the "unexpectedAlertBehaviour" capability to my driver with the "ignore" value, as per the documentation:

var caps = { browserName: 'chrome', unexpectedAlertBehaviour: 'ignore' };
var driver = new webdriver.Builder()
    .forBrowser('Chrome')
    .withCapabilities(caps)
    .build();

However, when I run my script with a page that displays an alert, I get an exception:

UnexpectedAlertOpenError: unexpected alert open: {Alert text : This is an alert}

How can I overcome this? To be clear, I do not want to automatically accept the alert, just wait for it to be closed.

Thanks!

RP

[Ricardo Peres]

Well, thanks a lot... for nothing...

RP