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 |
Using capability to enable sidebar on Edge
By default sidebar on the Microsoft Edge browser is diabled 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 browserstack.yml file under edge:
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
enableSidebar |
Set this capability as "true" to enable and "false" to disable sidebar on the Edge browser. |
Example
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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| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
enableSidebar |
Set this capability as "true" to enable and "false" to disable sidebar on the Edge browser. |
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
browserstack.edge.enableSidebar |
Set this capability as "true" to enable and "false" to disable sidebar on the Edge browser. |
For example:
MutableCapabilities capabilities = new MutableCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability("browserName", "Edge");
HashMap<String, Object> edgeOptions = new HashMap<String, Object>();
edgeOptions.put("enableSidebar", "true");
browserstackOptions.put("edge", edgeOptions);
capabilities.setCapability("bstack:options", browserstackOptions);
var capabilities = {
'bstack:options' : {
'edge' : {
"enableSidebar" : "true",
},
},
"browserName" : "Edge",
}
EdgeOptions capabilities = new EdgeOptions();
Dictionary<string, object> browserstackOptions = new Dictionary<string, object>();
browserstackOptions.Add("browserName", "Edge");
Dictionary<string, object> edgeOptions = new Dictionary<string, object>();
edgeOptions.Add("enableSidebar", "true");
browserstackOptions.Add("edge", edgeOptions);
capabilities.AddAdditionalOption("bstack:options", browserstackOptions);
desired_cap = {
'bstack:options' : {
'edge' : {
"enableSidebar" : "true",
},
},
"browserName" : "Edge",
}
capabilities = {
'bstack:options' => {
'edge' => {
"enableSidebar" => "true",
},
},
"browserName" => "Edge",
}
DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();
caps.setCapability("browser", "Edge");
caps.setCapability("browserstack.edge.enableSidebar", "true");
var capabilities = {
"browserName" : "Edge",
"browserstack.edge.enableSidebar" : "true",
}
EdgeOptions capability = new EdgeOptions();
capability.AddAdditionalCapability("browser", "Edge");
capability.AddAdditionalCapability("browserstack.edge.enableSidebar", "true");
desired_cap = {
"browser" : "Edge",
"browserstack.edge.enableSidebar" : "true",
}
caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.new
caps["browser"] = "Edge"
caps["browserstack.edge.enableSidebar"] = "true"
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