IE9 - New Browser (via target="_blank")

[Grim]

Hi,

I am testing a website and one of the links is target="_blank". In IE9, this creates a brand new Browser Instance, not a popup. As a result, the following approaches do not work:

1. Manager.Browsers.Count remains equal to one forever (I can test this using long timeouts
2. Wait for IEConnect does not work because the new window is not a popup. It is a new browser.
3. Manager.WaitForNewBrowserConnect(url) does not work. The new browser is not a popup per se, it's a brand new browser window so it does not seem to be associated with ActiveBrowser (like popups are).

So my questions are:

1. In IE9, when I click a target="_blank" and a brand new browser window appears, how do I get hold of it within the Telerik Framework?
2. Can I get hold of an already-running-browser instance that I did not spawn within Telerik?

Thanks for your help!

Grim

[Anthony]

Hello Graham,

There is no difference between a new browser instance and a standard HTML popup window as far as the Telerik Testing Framework is concerned. See here for more information.

Here is sample code written against a local HTML file that contains the following link in it:

<a href="http://www.bing.com" target="_blank" id="bing">Bing Popup</a>

Manager.LaunchNewBrowser(BrowserType.InternetExplorer);
ActiveBrowser.NavigateTo("c:\\html\\popup.html");

Manager.SetNewBrowserTracking(true);

Find.ById<HtmlAnchor>("bing").Click();

Manager.WaitForNewBrowserConnect("http://www.bing.com", true, 3000);
Manager.SetNewBrowserTracking(false);

Assert.IsTrue(Manager.Browsers.Count == 2);
Assert.IsTrue(ActiveBrowser.Url.Contains("http://www.bing.com"));
Find.ById<HtmlInputText>("sb_form_q").Text = "Telerik";
Find.ById<HtmlInputSubmit>("sb_form_go").Click();

ActiveBrowser.Close();

Assert.IsTrue(Manager.Browsers.Count == 1);
Assert.IsTrue(ActiveBrowser.Url.Contains("popup.html"));

1. Give the above approach a try in your environment.

2. No, this is not possible.

Kind regards,
Anthony
the Telerik team

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