How to record popup windows with selenium IDE

Question

While recording through IDE, if a popup window opens, it does not get recorded. "At the time of executing an error message is displayed. Please help me out.

Answer 1

If the popup window has a name like, opening from javascript window.open(URL, name), then its possible to add a command to check the content of popup. Similar to: waitForPopUp | winId | 30000 selectWindow | winId ... close

However, if there is no name for the window like, opened from <a target="_blank"> then you are out of luck.

Check out this doc for better understanding: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/SEL/Selenium+Core+FAQ#SeleniumCoreFAQ-HowdoIworkwithapopupwindow%3F