How do I disable 'show all' download bar of chrome in selenium

Question

I need to disable 'show all' download bar of chrome in selenium.

Because the download bar is showing, UI elements in the lower portion of my page that need to be clicked are not visible. I'm looking for something like the way we disable notification bars with

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions(); 
options.addArguments("disable-infobars"); 

Is there a way to disable the download bar like this, and where can I find the information?

Answer 1

Best Approach would be to Use Actions class in this case. The Element you need to interact with after the download bar is visible will be accessible with Actions class methods such as moveToElement().

This will save you the hassle of switching tabs and is a more neat approach.

Answer 2

One way to solve this would be to set up a custom chrome profile in which you disable the download prompt, save it to a specific location inside your project, then use to pass as an argument to ChromeOptions.

var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddArgument("--profile-directory=AutoUser");
    or
options.AddArgument("--user-data-dir=C:/Users/YourUserName/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data");

Answer 3

Yes, there is a way to disable the download bar in Chrome using Selenium. You can use the ChromeOptions class to add the argument "disable-features=DownloadUI" to the ChromeOptions object, which will disable the download bar. Here's an example:

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("disable-features=DownloadUI");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

This will launch Chrome with the download bar disabled.

You can find more information about ChromeOptions and the available arguments in the official Selenium documentation:

• Selenium documentation on ChromeOptions: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/en/webdriver/browser_manipulation/#chromeoptions
• List of Chrome command line switches: https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/