Setting browser window size in Watir-webdriver

watir watir-webdriver

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Solution 1

This works only for Firefox at the moment:

browser.window.resize_to(800, 600)

and you can move the browser, too:

browser.window.move_to(0, 0)

Solution 2

I'm using ruby+watir-webdriver and this code works for both FF and IE browsers (I have not checked in others browsers)

screen_width = browser.execute_script("return screen.width;")
screen_height = browser.execute_script("return screen.height;")
browser.driver.manage.window.resize_to(screen_width,screen_height)
browser.driver.manage.window.move_to(0,0)

Solution 3

I did something like this

browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => profile
browser.send_keys :f11

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Alastair Montgomery

Seem to be the Jack of all programming trades these days, know a little bit of everything, enough to be dangerous anyway.

Updated on June 14, 2022

Comments

Alastair Montgomery almost 2 years
How can you specify the size of the browser window opened when you call the following with watir-webdriver?
```
browser = Watir::Browser.new(:firefox)
```
Alastair Montgomery almost 13 years

Thanks will try it tomorrow :-)
adam reed almost 13 years

Thanks, this was the answer I didn't know I needed, too. It really helped with Jarmo's Win32Screenshot capability, too: Win32::Screenshot::Take.of(:desktop, :area => [0,0,1024,768])
Željko Filipin almost 13 years

@adam: watir-webdriver has screen shots built in: browser.driver.save_screenshot("file_name.png")
adam reed almost 13 years

Make that two answers I didn't know I needed. I was experimenting with vanilla watir & Jarmo's library first before pulling it into the latest webdriver script - looks like I would be better-served with this one. Thanks!
Željko Filipin almost 13 years

I'm glad I could help. More gems like these will soon be in my Watir book. watir.com/book :)
Boon almost 11 years

@DavidWest Seems like a hack, but does the job ;).. thanks for the upvote mate :)
Martin almost 11 years

@ŽeljkoFilipin When using b.window.resize_to(400,400) and b.driver.save_screenshot("screenshot.jpg") the screenshot is not saved with the 400x400 and keep the original browser size. Any idea why?
Željko Filipin almost 11 years

@Martin: I will reply at stackoverflow.com/questions/17828277/…
Matt almost 10 years

@ŽeljkoFilipin Is there a way to size the window proportionally to the screen or is that outside the scope of Watir? I'd like to have the browser take up half the screen.
Ripon Al Wasim over 9 years

What about IE? How can I maximize IE browser?
HelloWorldNoMore about 8 years

@ŽeljkoFilipin - Is Watir the same as Watir-Webdriver ? Thanks. PS - I don't want to make a question for this because it will be downvoted.
Michael about 7 years

Works for PhantomJS too! Thanks!