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Getting Started with PhantomJS

You're reading from   Getting Started with PhantomJS Harness the strength and capabilities of PhantomJS to interact with the web and perform website testing with a headless browser based on WebKit

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782164227
Length 140 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Manipulating Page Content FREE CHAPTER 3. Handling Events and Callbacks 4. Capturing Errors 5. Grabbing Pages 6. Accessing Location-based Services 7. Working with Files 8. Cookies 9. External JavaScript 10. Testing with PhantomJS 11. Maximizing PhantomJS Index

Answering prompt messages

Aside from alert messages, there are prompt messages that ask users to input their answer into a single text field. To handle this kind of dialog box from web pages, PhantomJS allows us to handle and answer back to this dialog prompts using the onPrompt callback.

page.onPrompt = function(message, defaultVal) {
  if (message === 'How old are you?') {
    return '18';
  }
  
  return defaultVal;
};

The onPrompt function callback receives two parameters. The first parameter is the message to be displayed in the prompt dialog; this normally asks a question back to the user. The second parameter is the default value or answer.

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