Setting browser window size in Watir-webdriver

Question

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

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

Plumber

Answer 1

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)

Danielson

Thanks will try it tomorrow :-) – Plumber

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]) – Alhambra

@adam: watir-webdriver has screen shots built in: browser.driver.save_screenshot("file_name.png") – Typo

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! – Alhambra

I'm glad I could help. More gems like these will soon be in my Watir book. watir.com/book :) – Typo

@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? – Interregnum

@Martin: I will reply at #17828777 – Typo

@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. – Trembly

What about IE? How can I maximize IE browser? – Cartoon

@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. – Tynan

Works for PhantomJS too! Thanks! – Barling

Answer 2

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)

Evered

Answer 3

I did something like this

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

Macleod

@DavidWest Seems like a hack, but does the job ;).. thanks for the upvote mate :) – Macleod