Before you start with Internet Explorer and Selenium Webdriver Consider these two important rules.
- The zoom level :Should be set to default (100%) and
- The security zone settings : Should be same for all. The security settings should be set according to your organisation permissions.
How to set this?
- Simply go to Internet explorer, do both the stuffs manually. Thats it. No secret.
- Do it through your code.
Method 1:
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.IGNORE_ZOOM_SETTING, true);
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","D:\\IEDriverServer_Win32_2.33.0\\IEDriverServer.exe");
WebDriver driver= new InternetExplorerDriver(capabilities);
driver.get(baseURl);
//Identify your elements and go ahead testing...
This will definetly not show any error and browser will open and also will navigate to the URL.
BUT This will not identify any element and hence you can not proceed.
Why? Because we have simly suppressed the error and asked IE to open and get that URL. However Selenium will identify elements only if the browser zoom is 100% ie. default.
So the final code would be
Method 2 The robust and full proof way:
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
capabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.IGNORE_ZOOM_SETTING, true);
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","D:\\IEDriverServer_Win32_2.33.0\\IEDriverServer.exe");
WebDriver driver= new InternetExplorerDriver(capabilities);
driver.get(baseURl);
driver.findElement(By.tagName("html")).sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,"0"));
//Identify your elements and go ahead testing...
Hope this helps. Do let me know if further information is required.