Selenium + Java: Unable to close Advertisement in webpage

Question

Issue I am facing:

After this step: driver.findElement(By.linkText("New Customer")).click(); an advertisement window opens and script stops here. I'm unable to close the advertisement and continue further navigation/testing.

I'm still learning and hence not sure what I should do. I need help with this situation.

I ordered to stop the advertisement window during whole program (don't want Advertisement at all).

Advertisement is different every time I run the script.

package selenium;

import java.sql.Array;
import java.util.Arrays;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

public class gure99 {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\Admin\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://demo.guru99.com/");
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        driver.get("https://demo.guru99.com/");
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        driver.findElement(By.name("emailid")).sendKeys("<my username>");
        driver.findElement(By.name("btnLogin")).click();
        driver.get("https://demo.guru99.com/V4/");
        driver.findElement(By.name("uid")).sendKeys("mngr385415");
        driver.findElement(By.name("password")).sendKeys("<my password>");
        driver.findElement(By.name("btnLogin")).click();
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        driver.findElement(By.linkText("New Customer")).click();
        Thread.sleep(5000);
        driver.switchTo().alert().sendKeys("Close");
        Thread.sleep(5000);

Answer 1

The ad that you want to close is within and iFrame, which in turn is within another iFrame.

So, first of all you will need to switch to the iFrame within which the ad is displayed.

After you switch to the iFrame you can locate the "Close" button (it's actually a Span tag) an then click() it.

sendKeys("Close") won't work as it isn't a text input element.

Here is my code that works,

try {
    WebDriver driver;
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", System.getProperty("user.dir") + "//chromedriver");
    driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    driver.get("https://demo.guru99.com/");
    driver.manage().window().maximize();
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    driver.get("https://demo.guru99.com/V4/");
    driver.findElement(By.name("uid")).sendKeys("<yourusername>");
    driver.findElement(By.name("password")).sendKeys("<yourpassword>");
    driver.findElement(By.name("btnLogin")).click();
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("New Customer")).click();
    Thread.sleep(5000);
            WebElement frame1 = driver.findElement(By.id("google_ads_iframe_/24132379/INTERSTITIAL_DemoGuru99_0"));
    driver.switchTo().frame(frame1);
    WebElement frame2 = driver.findElement(By.id("ad_iframe"));
    driver.switchTo().frame(frame2);
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='dismiss-button']/div/span")).click();
    driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
    Thread.sleep(5000);
    driver.close();
    driver.quit();
} catch (Exception e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

One thing I noticed in the advertisement is that even though it's a different ad each time, the ID of the div (div[@id='dismiss-button']) remains same. So the same code will work for all ads that appear in the page.

Answer 2

Based on the screenshots and the code supplied, it looks like the OP is learning Selenium by using a demo site on guru99.com.

While the code doesn't say where the pop-up is attempting to be closed, I have a feeling the attempt is on driver.switchTo().alert().sendKeys("Close");

This won't work. The alert() method is meant to switch the driver focus to a browser based alert, treating it like a new browser window. The pop-up in the image is NOT that type of alert, so Selenium doesn't know how to find it to close it.

The pop-up does look like a normal JavaScript modal. It has an 'X' button, an open button, a snowman menu (3 vertical dots). The solution is to find an element locator for the 'X' button and click it.

Something like, a bit of pseudo code so it won't work exactly:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("<css path to the X button>")).click();
Thread.sleep(5000);

Other than CSS Selector, you can also use an Xpath.

Normally, I wouldn't recommend a sleep, but to use a built-in wait (explicit wait) method that Selenium has.

Given that the OP seems to be learning, their current format is fine for this. I do want to encourage learning next steps which are to learn about Page Objects and to setup a solution using the Page Object Method.