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Enabling sidebar on Edge

Learn how to enable or disable the sidebar on Edge Browser in Selenium tests on Browserstak Automate.

Microsoft’s Edge browser has a sidebar to access the productivity tools and apps from it. You can access the sidebar of the Edge browser in your automated test scripts for BrowserStack Automate.

Supported OS and Edge version

OS Edge version
macOS & Windows 105 and above

Sidebar on the Edge browser

Using capability to enable sidebar on Edge

By default sidebar on the Microsoft Edge browser is disabled in BrowserStack Automate. You can access the sidebar on the Microsoft Edge browser using the following capabilities.

If you are using BrowserStack SDK, you can set the following capabilities in the configuration file under edge:

Capability Description
enableSidebar Set this capability as "true" to enable and "false" to disable sidebar on the Edge browser.

Example

browserstack.yml
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Note that the enableSidebar capability has to be placed under the edge capability, and will only work if you have declared Edge as the browserName.

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