Setting browser window size in Watir-webdriver

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How can you specify the size of the browser window opened when you call the following with watir-webdriver?

browser = Watir::Browser.new(:firefox)

Željko Filipin · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-24T11:35:33.153

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This works only for Firefox at the moment:

browser.window.resize_to(800, 600)

and you can move the browser, too:

browser.window.move_to(0, 0)

edited Dec 24 '11 at 11:35

answered May 25 '11 at 15:12

Željko Filipin

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Thanks will try it tomorrow :-) – Alastair Montgomery May 25 '11 at 15:16
Thanks, this was the answer I didn't know I needed, too. It really helped with Jarmo's Win32Screenshot capability, too: Win32::Screenshot::Take.of(:desktop, :area => [0,0,1024,768]) – adam reed May 26 '11 at 19:11
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@adam: watir-webdriver has screen shots built in: `browser.driver.save_screenshot("file_name.png")` – Željko Filipin May 27 '11 at 09:13
Make that two answers I didn't know I needed. I was experimenting with vanilla watir & Jarmo's library first before pulling it into the latest webdriver script - looks like I would be better-served with this one. Thanks! – adam reed May 31 '11 at 16:45
I'm glad I could help. More gems like these will soon be in my Watir book. http://watir.com/book/ :) – Željko Filipin Jun 01 '11 at 08:10
@ŽeljkoFilipin When using `b.window.resize_to(400,400)` and `b.driver.save_screenshot("screenshot.jpg")` the screenshot is not saved with the 400x400 and keep the original browser size. Any idea why? – Martin Jul 24 '13 at 07:56
@Martin: I will reply at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17828277/selenium-or-watir-webdriver-how-to-save-resized-screenshot – Željko Filipin Jul 24 '13 at 08:46
@ŽeljkoFilipin Is there a way to size the window proportionally to the screen or is that outside the scope of Watir? I'd like to have the browser take up half the screen. – Matt Jul 14 '14 at 00:00
What about IE? How can I maximize IE browser? – Ripon Al Wasim Dec 24 '14 at 10:01
@ŽeljkoFilipin - Is Watir the same as Watir-Webdriver ? Thanks. PS - I don't want to make a question for this because it will be downvoted. – HelloWorldNoMore Apr 11 '16 at 19:00
Works for PhantomJS too! Thanks! – Michael Apr 06 '17 at 10:51

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 24 '12 at 11:54

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I'm using ruby+watir-webdriver and this code works for both FF and IE browsers (I have not checked in others browsers)

screen_width = browser.execute_script("return screen.width;")
screen_height = browser.execute_script("return screen.height;")
browser.driver.manage.window.resize_to(screen_width,screen_height)
browser.driver.manage.window.move_to(0,0)

edited Jan 24 '12 at 11:54

Aliaksei Kliuchnikau

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answered Jan 24 '12 at 11:52

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score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 28 '12 at 16:27

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I did something like this

browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => profile
browser.send_keys :f11

answered Nov 28 '12 at 16:27

Boon

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@DavidWest Seems like a hack, but does the job ;).. thanks for the upvote mate :) – Boon Jul 12 '13 at 08:18

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