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user2314737
user2314737

Reputation: 29317

Open and close new tab with Selenium WebDriver in OS X

I'm using the Firefox Webdriver in Python 2.7 on Windows to simulate opening (Ctrl+t) and closing (Ctrl + w) a new tab.

Here's my code:

from selenium import webdriver  
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('https://www.google.com')
main_window = browser.current_window_handle
# open new tab
browser.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 't')
browser.get('https://www.yahoo.com')

# close tab
browser.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 'w')

How to achieve the same on a Mac? Based on this comment one should use browser.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.COMMAND + 't') to open a new tab but I don't have a Mac to test it and what about the equivalent of Ctrl-w?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 21

Views: 69985

Answers (8)

kubi_Pow
kubi_Pow

Reputation: 26

This worked for me:

url = "https://www.google.com"
#open a new tab    
driver.switch_to.new_window()
driver.get(url)
#add more code here
#....
#close the tab if you have only this tab open driver.close() will also execute driver.quit() and close the browser
driver.close()
#switch back to the ith tab <tab index starts from 0>
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[i])

Upvotes: 0

Anmol Deep
Anmol Deep

Reputation: 683

This worked for me. When I was doing driver.close and not switching back to old window, the new tab was not closing [I am still not able to figure out why].

driver.execute_script("window.open('');") # Open an empty tab
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1]) # Switch to that tab (given you only have two tabs)
driver.get(new_tab_url) # Open url in the new tab
# Do your stuff here###

####################### 
driver.close() # close the new tab
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0]) #This step is also important, go back to your old tab (given you have only two tabs)

Upvotes: 2

rram12
rram12

Reputation: 61

IMHO all the above answers didn't exactly solve the original problem of closing a tab in a window and not closing the entire window or opening a blank tab.

my solution:

browser.switch_to.window("tab1") #change the tab1 to the id of the tab you want to close
browser.execute_script("window.close('','_parent','');")

Upvotes: 0

3mrsh
3mrsh

Reputation: 83

Just to combine the answers above for someone still curious. The below is based on Python 2.7 and a driver in Chrome.

Open new tab by: driver.execute_script("window.open('"+URL+"', '__blank__');") where URL is a string such as "http://www.google.com".

Close tab by: driver.close() [Note, this also doubles as driver.quit() when you only have 1 tab open].

Navigate between tabs by: driver.switch_to_window(driver.window_handles[0]) and driver.switch_to_window(driver.window_handles[1]).

Upvotes: 7

JayHung
JayHung

Reputation: 189

You can choose which window you want to close：

window_name = browser.window_handles[0]

Switch window：

browser.switch_to.window(window_name=window_name)

Then close it：

browser.close()

Upvotes: 15

alien_frog
alien_frog

Reputation: 647

open a new tab:

browser.get('http://www.google.com')

close a tab:

browser.close()

switch to a tab:

browser.swith_to_window(window_name)

Upvotes: 15

ZijiG
ZijiG

Reputation: 21

Open new tab:

browser.execute_script("window.open('"+your url+"', '_blank')")

Switch to new tab:

browser.switch_to.window(windows[1])

Upvotes: 2

Bek
Bek

Reputation: 170

There's nothing easier and clearer than just running JavaScript.

Open new tab: driver.execute_script("window.open('');")

Upvotes: 13

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