How to accept "This action cannot be undone. Are you sure you want to delete this wishlist" popup using Selenium and Java

Question

I'm in need of clicking the first button of a browser notification, which appears after clicking on a button "Delete Wishlist". This button is as below;

  <a href="/account/wishlistupdate?mainAction=delete&amp;wishlistId=2547474" class="btn btn-danger btn-sm" onclick="return confirm('This action cannot be undone. Are you sure you want to delete this wishlist?')" style="" xpath="1">Delete wishlist</a>

This button click opens a browser notification.

I have tried alert.accept(), but doesn't work for me.

 public HomePage editWishlist(){
    click(edit_button);    //     By edit_button = By.xpath("//div[@class='btn-edit-text']");

    click(deleteWishlist_button); //    By deleteWishlist_button = By.linkText("Delete wishlist");

    try {
        Thread.sleep(1500);
    } catch(InterruptedException e) {
        System.out.println("got interrupted!");
    }

    Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
    alert.accept();

    return this;
}

How can I manage this?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '19 at 06:36

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This is a Javascript Confirmation Alert and you can accept it by switching to it and then accepting it:

driver.switchTo().alert().accept();

Similarly to click on cancel you can call method dismiss()

answered Sep 20 '19 at 06:36

Mustahsan

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maybe you need to wait for it to load before actually executing this code? try `Thread.sleep(1000);` if it works then you can apply selenium waits – Mustahsan Sep 20 '19 at 06:43
any exception trace? – Mustahsan Sep 20 '19 at 06:49
No, it doesn't fail. It passes, but the functionality after clicking on "Ok" button is not applied. – Aalia Sajana Sep 20 '19 at 06:50
I just created a script for same website to delete from wishlist and it seems to work – Mustahsan Sep 20 '19 at 07:04
can you share code? maybe you are doing something wrong – Mustahsan Sep 20 '19 at 07:05
please add it in question with proper formatting, its hard to read this way – Mustahsan Sep 20 '19 at 07:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '19 at 07:13

This popup with text as

This action cannot be undone. Are you sure you want to delete this wishlist?

...is the implementation of onbeforeunload property of WindowEventHandlers.

onbeforeunload

The onbeforeunload property of the WindowEventHandlers mixin is the EventHandler for processing beforeunload events. These events fire when a window is about to unload its resources. At this point, the document is still visible and the event is still cancelable.

Solution

A Cross Browser solution would be to disable this dialog invoking the executeScript() setting window.onbeforeunload as function() {}; and you can use the following solution:

    driver.execute_script("window.onbeforeunload = function() {};")

You can find a relevant discussion in How to disable a “Reload site? Changes you made may not be saved” popup for (python) selenium tests in chrome?

How to accept "This action cannot be undone. Are you sure you want to delete this wishlist" popup using Selenium and Java

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