How to find prompt by Selenium

Question

Does anybody know how to find this type of element by Selenium? (to validate its presence or text)?

I tried to catch it as alert (swithToAlert()) but it doesn't work. Any ideas? It is also can not be inspected as element and I can't find it in Elements. Thank you in advance.

Update the question with the text based relevant HTML of the element and your code trials. — undetected Selenium, Aug 08 '22 at 20:32
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38812466/how-to-get-the-text-from-the-html5-input-field-error-message-in-selenium — Nikhil Sonawane, Sep 08 '22 at 10:15

SiKing · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-09T14:38:46.323

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This uses HTML5 form validation. This is created by the browser, and does not exist in the DOM. Therefore Selenium cannot see this.

You can access this using JavaScript. Here is a brief code sample:

JavascriptExecutor jsExecutor = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
WebElement field = driver.findElement(By.tagName("input"));  // your input box

if (!(Boolean) jsExecutor.executeScript("return arguments[0].validity.valid;", field)) {
        return (String) jsExecutor.executeScript("return arguments[0].validationMessage;", field);
    }

The entire API is documented.

element.validity.valid

Returns true if the element's value has no validity problems; false otherwise.

So this popup is displayed if this returns false, but only after clicking Submit on the form.

edited Aug 09 '22 at 14:38

answered Aug 08 '22 at 20:39

SiKing

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What does `return arguments[0].validity.valid;` does/returns? – undetected Selenium Aug 08 '22 at 20:55
It works! I can get text from this prompt message. There is one more question: how to check that this window is being displayed now? – Katerina Zharkaya Aug 08 '22 at 21:00

How to find prompt by Selenium

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