Artem Nagornyi's SDET recipes

How to disable Save As dialog in Selenium WebDriver tests? Solution for Firefox (add more MIME media types if necessary): FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile = new FirefoxProfile(); firefoxProfile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList",2); firefoxProfile.setPreference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting",false); firefoxProfile.setPreference("browser.download.dir", "/save/file/to/this/directory"); firefoxProfile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk","text/html, application/xhtml+xml, application/xml, application/csv, text/plain, application/vnd.ms-excel, text/csv, text/comma-separated-values, application/octet-stream"); WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(firefoxProfile); Solution for Google Chrome (this applies to all MIME media types): Map prefs = new Hashtable<>(); prefs.put("download.prompt_for_download", "false"); prefs.put("download.

Sometimes it's very helpful if we are able to click some element directly, by calling JavaScript click event. For example, this can be the case when the element is not visible, or not clickable, thus we cannot use native WebDriver methods. WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver; js.executeScript("document.querySelector('.pane .object_options .dropdown-toggle span').click();");