getting text from textfield in alerts

Question

In our web-aplication we use several alerts like this:

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I need to retrieve link from this alert. I did:

Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
String link = alert.getText();

But alert.getText() returns "Link to copy" not a link in textfield so how can I get link in this case?

probably you need to get text box first? See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5164894/selenium2-and-webdriver-alert — Reddy, Jan 17 '12 at 11:14
Can you try driver.findElement as OP used in the question I have linked? — Reddy, Jan 17 '12 at 12:30
I can't use driver.findElement() becouse it is alert, not webelement — Guru_1010, Jan 17 '12 at 13:20

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '12 at 16:32

WebDriver will be unable to retrieve the link text. For Windows, you could leverage the Windows Automation API to scrape the text, other operating systems probably have similar APIs that you could utilize - but the short answer is that WebDriver won't be able to do this.

getting text from textfield in alerts

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