This patch adds some support for honouring the "target" attribute of a link in FireFox.

Index: selenium-browserbot.js
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— selenium-browserbot.js (revision 417)
+++ selenium-browserbot.js (working copy)
@@ -549,7 +549,11 @@
if (needsProgrammaticClick && !preventDefault) {
// Try the element itself, as well as it's parent - this handles clicking images inside links.
if (element.href) {

• this.currentWindow.location.href = element.href;
  + if (element.target) { + this.currentWindow.frames[element.target].location.href = element.href; + } else { + this.currentWindow.location.href = element.href; + }
  }
  else if (element.parentNode.href) {
  this.currentWindow.location.href = element.parentNode.href;

Patch which handles page-transitions within nested IFrames. Submitted by Steven Haberman.

Hi,

I've contracted on two straight projects in a row that use iframes heavily.
I haven't had the authority to change this, but I've at least had the
authority to test my own stuff with Selenium. Here's a patch I made to
selenium-browserbot.js which lets me click on things that cause pages to
load in iframes (even sub-iframes, sheesh) and have selenium keep going (it
originally would just stop as the iframe/sub-iframe event would not get
percolated up to selenium so it would think the page load was hanging).

Basically, I had to make a copy of SelfRemovingLoadListener and make one
specifically for frames - SelfRemovingLoadListnerFrames. Then when
installing the listeners, I call walkFrames and apply the listener to every
frame (recursive) in the document. The first frame that hears an event then
has its installed listener fired, which calls its wrapped function (e.g.
onloadCallback), and then uses walkFrames to uninstall all of the listeners
from the frames.

Thanks,
Stephen

In implementing support for multi-frame (and potentially multi-window) apps, I propose we refactor the Selenium UI, separating it into one top-level window for Selenium suite, test, controls (and log?), and another for the AUT.

Selenium Core now provides the capability to test multi-window or multi-framed applications.