Dialogs

Playwright can interact with the web page dialogs such as alert, confirm, prompt as well as beforeunload confirmation.

• alert(), confirm(), prompt() dialogs
• beforeunload dialog

alert(), confirm(), prompt() dialogs

You can register a dialog handler before the action that triggers the dialog to accept or decline it.

page.on('dialog', dialog => dialog.accept());

await page.click('button');

note

If your action, be it page.click(selector[, options]), page.evaluate(pageFunction[, arg]) or any other, results in a dialog, the action will stall until the dialog is handled. That's because dialogs in Web are modal and block further page execution until they are handled.

As a result, following snippet will never resolve:

:::warn WRONG! :::

await page.click('button'); // Will hang here

page.on('dialog', dialog => dialog.accept())

:::warn WRONG! :::

API reference

• [Dialog]
• dialog.accept([promptText])
• dialog.dismiss()

beforeunload dialog

When page.close([options]) is invoked with the truthy runBeforeUnload value, it page runs its unload handlers. This is the only case when page.close([options]) does not wait for the page to actually close, because it might be that the page stays open in the end of the operation.

You can register a dialog handler to handle the beforeunload dialog yourself:

page.on('dialog', async dialog => {

assert(dialog.type() === 'beforeunload');

await dialog.dismiss();

});

await page.close({runBeforeUnload: true});