Selenium Webdriver: The method alert() is undefined for the type WebDriver.TargetLocator

Question

I am trying to handle alerts using Selenium Webdriver, according the selenium documentation the correct implementation is:

Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();

However I am getting error message The method alert() is undefined for the type WebDriver.TargetLocator

what version of Selenium 2 has this web driver api

Answer 1

I'm using selenium 2.3 and it works for me. From what I've seen, alerts only work with windows that ONLY have the ok button. Thats where you put the alert.accept(); statement in. Another problem that I've seen with alerts is that it may jump over the alert so you may have to have a wait statement for that specific alert. Hope this helps.