How to set WATIR focus on new window

Question

I'm new to WATIR testing (and do I love it!) and have run into a wall on how to refocus my WATIR script to a newly opened window.. Here's my (simplified) script....

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'watir-webdriver'
browser=Watir::Browser.new
browser.goto("http://0:3050")

browser.text_field(:name,"userkey300203830").set("OKJHNB")
browser.button(:id, "interview48").click

puts "Expected Result:"
puts "A successful display of cars"

if browser.window(:title=>"300203830").exists?
   puts " Test passed. New window opened!"
else
   puts " Test Failed! No window found"
end

It all works right up to the end. After the key "interview48" is clicked, a new window is opened with the title "300203830". Looks like I find it but I just don't know how to now focus on that window.

Emptor

Answer 1

browser.window(:title => "300203830").use do
  # do something
end

More information: http://watir.github.io/docs/browser-popups/

Invalidate

Answer 2

Additionally for more than 2 windows you can use the following:

browser.windows[n].use  

#n is variable for which window. n will access them in order of opened or tabs from left to right

Kaylyn

Answer 3

browser.windows.last.use 
browser.windows.first.use

You can use the above commands if you open a new window from first browser instance and would like to toggle between the two.

Kaylyn

This one seemed to not fail when there is only one window present, as opposed to browser.windows[n].use. Just a tidbit of information for anyone who might be interested in that distinction. – Garratt

Answer 4

There are 3 primary selectors for windows:

• :title - typically the easiest

• :url - often used with a Regexp value

• :element - a unique element might be the least brittle (new as of Watir 6.18!)

  browser.window(title: 'new window') browser.window(url: /my_page.html/) browser.window(element: browser.div(id: 'my-element'))

Locating by index is no longer supported

More information: Watir Browser Windows

Titlark

Answer 5

If there is only one other window you want to use, so as of Watir 6.18, the easiest way to work with that window is with Browser#switch_window. It can only be used if there are only 2 windows, and all it does is switch to the other one, no additional locating required.

browser.switch_window

Gehenna