Support for window.showModalDialog

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 284

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit http://developer.mozilla.org/samples/domref/showModalDialog.html
2. Use webdriver to click on the button to open up the modal dialog

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
WebDriver blocks upon opening the modal dialog

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Firefox/IE

Please provide any additional information below.
This is probably going to be possible after Issue #27 is resolved.

Reported by steveccrp on 2009-12-16 18:15:47

[lukeis]

+1 for my vote!

As a workaround, this worked for me, though in my case I did not want a return value
as the modal dialog handled everything for the parent. Anyway thought I'd pass it on.

driver.executeScript("window.showModalDialog = window.openWindow;");

Reported by andrew.fawcett@coda.com on 2010-03-07 22:06:11

[lukeis]

Hi Andrew, I am trying to use your workaround to handle modal dialogs in my 
application. In my case the changes from pop-up have to be passed on the parent 
window. I tried driver.executeScript("return window.showModalDialog 
=window.openWindow;"); Didn't work. Do you have any other suggestions ? Thanks for

your help.

Reported by checkemail.wd on 2010-04-21 14:27:47

[lukeis]

After a year long of research on Modal Dialog to handle it through Selenium, I and 
my team at Sumtotal systems have formulated some workaround. It has been well tested

thoroughly as our application extensively uses modal dialogs. To make this work we

have modified IEBrowserBot.prototype.modifyWindowToRecordPopUpDialogs function 
defined in selenium-browserbot.js. The code snippet is attached. We expect some one

from selenium core team to include this in the Selenium Core so that every one of us

can take advantage of the same. For more details do visit 
http://seleniumdeal.blogspot.com/2010/04/working-with-modal-dialogs-and-selenium.html

Reported by vibhuti.amit on 2010-04-23 06:48:04

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- _Attachment: [ModalDialog.txt](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/selenium/issue-284/comment-3/ModalDialog.txt)_

[lukeis]

We also do have several show modal dialog box in our application but note that, some

show modal dialog boxes are not opening the perfect application window (Non modal 
window) with the code changes in browserbot.js, It's showing undefined in the window

(non modal window) and the actual functionality of the window is missing (e.g. if 
the modal pop up is for confirmation for delete something with the confirmation 
message and Yes no Button then it shows the message as undefined with yes no button,

also on clicking on yes button it's just closing the window without performing the

actual delete), It's not setting the return value and dialog.argument for the new 
opened non modal window so it's shows as undefined, is there any way to set the 
dialog argument to the non modal window 

Please let me know if you have any pointer for it.

you can also try out your code on following modal dialog box using selenium and your

updated code

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533723(VS.85).aspx

Click on "Show me" button to display the dialog


Please let me know if you have any pointer for it. 

Reported by ashish.joshi79 on 2010-05-15 02:56:25

[lukeis]

Hi Amit,

I tried to use your workaround for modal dialogs in our application following the instructions
in http://seleniumdeal.blogspot.com/2010/04/working-with-modal-dialogs-and-selenium.html
- the popup dialog was opened but with "false" value and with javascript error: "Message:
'dialogArguments' is undefined"
Could you please advise ?

Thanks,
Yaffit

Reported by YaffitM on 2010-08-09 17:28:58

[lukeis]

We are experiencing same issue, is this some thing we expect to get fixed in near future
releases?? 

Reported by sridurgadevi on 2010-10-18 15:17:24

[lukeis]

I realy like to thank Amit for his solution - it worked for the application I am using.
I have followed his solution given in his blog dated 2009 "http://seleniumdeal.blogspot.com/2009/01/handling-modal-window-with-selenium.html"..I
too faced the same problem as said by 'YaffitM' but if we can arrange the code it will
work (but saying that I feel it might not be necessary). 

Reported by subhabratapal12 on 2010-10-26 07:35:57