Selenium IDE - There was an unexpected Confirmation!

Question

I have a button that displays Javascript confirmation popup. This is a part of my test case:

<tr>
    <td>clickAndWait</td>
    <td>buttonId</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>verifyTextPresent</td>
    <td>Object has been deleted</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

It works as expected: OK is clicked automatically on a popup and verifyTextPresent return true. Still, I get [error] There was an unexpected Confirmation! in the log and test case fails.

Any suggestions?

what do you mean by "javascript confirmation popup" > an alert? a confirm? a custom dialog window? a pop-up window? — Bozho, Jan 14 '10 at 08:33

score 24 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Summary: In the IDE use storeConfirmation.

You have to consume confirmation dialogs. Otherwise the Selenium test will fail.

From the Java Selenium RC API Selenium.html.getConfirmation method:

If a confirmation is generated but you do not consume it with getConfirmation method, the next Selenium action will fail.

Edit:

storeConfirmation consumes the confirmation as well.

storeConfirmation ( variableName )

Retrieves the message of a JavaScript confirmation dialog generated during the previous action.

If a confirmation is generated but you do not consume it with getConfirmation method, the next Selenium action will fail.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Jan 14 '10 at 10:08

Thomas Jung

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But how can I do this from Selenium IDE (firefox plugin)? There is no command like getConfirmation available there. – Ula Krukar Jan 14 '10 at 13:31
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Thats this was the perfect answer for me. – Ben Doerr Feb 04 '11 at 23:16

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 18 '11 at 17:09

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I encountered the same problem, and I solved it like this:

chooseOkOnNextConfirmation click buttonId assertConfirmation

This makes my test run green in my Selenium IDE.

The code to do this is:

<tr>
    <td>chooseOkOnNextConfirmation</td>
    <td></td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>ctl00_CPHMain_ucFormDMS_grdDocumentList_ctl00_ctl04_btnDelete</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>assertConfirmation</td>
    <td>Areyousureyouwanttodeletethisdocument?</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

edited Feb 18 '11 at 17:09

Andrew Hancox

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answered Mar 22 '10 at 15:59

Knubo

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If iam getting next to next confirmation as first to cancel and then to ok on confirmation, what should i do? – Emmanuel Angelo.R Jun 07 '14 at 05:17
I don't have the project available anymore so I can't help you now :( – Knubo Jul 08 '14 at 18:55

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 27 '13 at 11:20

using selenium.chooseOkOnNextConfirmation is correct but insead of using this alone use

selenium.click("xpath=//button"); selenium.getConfirmation(); selenium.chooseOkOnNextConfirmation(); Here it will first click on the button and get the confirmation , then it would click OK from that confirmation

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 17 '13 at 10:05

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In Selenium IDE you can use waitForConfirmation(pattern)

answered Sep 17 '13 at 10:05

Vladimir F

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Selenium IDE - There was an unexpected Confirmation!

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Summary: In the IDE use storeConfirmation.

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