How Selenide creates WebDriver

Selenide is basically a wrapper for Selenium WebDriver. This means that you can use all WebDriver methods in case if you feel some functionality missing in Selenide.

How to get WebDriver

Step 1:import static com.codeborne.selenide.WebDriverRunner.getWebDriver

Step 2: Use methodgetWebDrivereverywhere you need, e.g.:

getWebDriver().findElement(By.id("username"))

Which browser Selenide uses

By default Selenide uses Firefox web browser as it's the most simple and does not use additional installations.

You can easy run Selenide with another browser by passing "browser" parameter when running tests:

java -Dselenide.browser=chrome -classpath junit-rt.jar... org.junit.Runner...

The following values are supported:

• firefox (default)
• chrome (the fastest. Recommended. Needs additional chromedriver binary installation.)
• htmlunit (headless browser)
• ie
• opera (slow and unstable, not recommended)
• phantomjs (newborn headless browser)

How to run Selenide with another browser

To run Selenide with any other web browser driver, just pass name of it's class to "browser" parameter:

java -Dselenide.browser=org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver

Another option is to directly say Selenide use your desired WebDriver instance:

WebDriverRunner.setWebDriver(myWebDriver).

In this case Selenide is not responsible for handling webdriver lifecycle and you should close and quit it manually.

How to run Selenide with custom profile

You can pass Selenide a name of factory class that creates WebDriver instance by your needs:

java -Dselenide.browser=com.mycompany.CustomWebDriverProvider

This factory should implement interface WebDriverProvider with method createDriver:

public static class CustomWebDriverProvider implements WebDriverProvider {
    @Override
    public WebDriver createDriver(DesiredCapabilities capabilities) {
       FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(new File("/home/test/MozzillaProf/"));
       profile.setAssumeUntrustedCertificateIssuer(false);
       profile.addAdditionalPreference("general.useragent.override", "some UA string");

       capabilities.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, profile);
       return new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);
    }
  }