Dealing with OS pop up windows in Selenium

Question

I have a question regarding how to deal with an OS specific pop up window (in this case Windows) and if it is possible to access the elements in them for things such as photo uploads, document uploads, etc. So say if I have an "Add Photo" button and I click it, it will then lead me to a window like this..

So I am wondering if there is a way i can just do element.sendKeys(absolute path url) for the File Name.. Has anyone had success with something like this? Thanks!

possible duplicate of [How to handle windows file upload using selenium webdriver?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11256732/how-to-handle-windows-file-upload-using-selenium-webdriver) — JeffC, Aug 25 '15 at 18:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 25 '15 at 15:45

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Yes you are able to sendKeys() to the actual button for example:

WebElement button = driver.findElement(by.id("buttonId"));
button.sendKeys(pathToFile);

answered Aug 25 '15 at 15:45

Jamie Rees

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To the "Add Photos" button? so if I had WebElement addPhotos = By.xpath("blah...") I could do addPhotos.click() and addPhotos.sendKeys("path")? I dont see how that can work :/ – Tree55Topz Aug 25 '15 at 16:50
Or are you saying just leave out the .click() entirely – Tree55Topz Aug 25 '15 at 16:51
Leave out the `.click()`. You can sendKeys directly to the `` element – Jamie Rees Aug 25 '15 at 19:40

Dealing with OS pop up windows in Selenium

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