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user1851202

Reputation: 11

How do I open a new tab and without closing the old one in Selenium, retain the previous window

I am working on 2 URLS . I need to open the first URL ,perform some action and open the second URL.

openURL1() { perform action }

openURL2() { perform action } switch back to URL1

when I use driver.get or driver.navigate , URL1 gets closed. Is there anyway to retain the window with URL1 while opening URL2? I am working with selenium and JAVA

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2604

Answers (3)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193058

Here is the Answer to your Question:

Here is the working code block which opens the URL http://www.google.com, prints Working on Google on the console, opens http://facebook.com/ in a new tab, prints Working on Facebook in the console, closes the tab which opened the URL http://facebook.com/, gets you back to the tab which opened the URL http://www.google.com and finally closes it.

    System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\your_directory\\geckodriver.exe");
    WebDriver driver =  new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.get("http://www.google.com");
    String first_tab = driver.getWindowHandle();
    System.out.println("Working on Google");
    ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("window.open('http://facebook.com/');");
    Set<String> s1 = driver.getWindowHandles();
    Iterator<String> i1 = s1.iterator();
    while(i1.hasNext())
    {

        String next_tab = i1.next();
        if (!first_tab.equalsIgnoreCase(next_tab))
        {
            driver.switchTo().window(next_tab);
            System.out.println("Working on Facebook");
            driver.close();
        }
    }
    driver.switchTo().window(first_tab);
    driver.close();

Let me know if this Answers your Question.

Upvotes: 1

Prateeksha Chauhan
Prateeksha Chauhan

Reputation: 68

You may use javascript to open new tab

(JavascriptExecutor(driver)).executeScript("window.open();");

Upvotes: 1

Vinod Baradwaj
Vinod Baradwaj

Reputation: 118

If the second tab is not opened through an action that is performed in first tab, then you can use two driver objects, so that you'll have control of both the browsers with different driver objects.

    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.get("https://news.ycombinator.com");

    WebDriver driver1 = new ChromeDriver();
    driver1.get("https://www.google.com");

By this approach you can use driver to control URL1 and driver1 to control URL2.

Upvotes: 3

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