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Niloy Rony
Niloy Rony

Reputation: 632

How to close target = _blank page in selenium without close driver?

I have a two like like below

<body>
    <a href="contact.php" target="_blank">contact</a>
    <a href="test.php" target="_blank">Sest</a>
</body>

After click on link page has open in new tab , I want to close this tab without close driver, Is it possible ? I have tried below code but not working.

link = driver.find_element_by_xpath(
    "//a[contains(text(),'contact') or contains(text(),'est')]")

link.click()

driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 'w')

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1356

Answers (3)

Marcel Wilson
Marcel Wilson

Reputation: 4572

A tab is nothing more than another window (from the eyes of selenium)

To close a window you must switch to it, then call driver.close().
This does NOT cause selenium to quit the driver itself, which I suspect is what you might be afraid of.

To switch to a window, you'll need the window ID.
driver.current_window_handle gives you the window you're currently focused.
driver.window_handles will give you a list of all the windows open.
Assuming you only have two windows open, it should be easy to identify the one you want to close.

Lastly, don't forget to switch back to the original window. Closing a window does not automatically move your focus back to a window.

driver.switch_to.window(window_id)
driver.close()
driver.switch_to.window(original_id)

Upvotes: 1

James Tollefson
James Tollefson

Reputation: 893

You can switch between windows by using driver.window_handles to identify all the windows currently open in your driver's browser. Then you can move between them using `driver.switch_to_window(). Here's an example:

tabs = driver.window_handles #get list of open windows
driver.switch_to_window(tabs[1])
driver.close() #close the current window
driver.switch_to_window(tabs[0]) #return to first window

Upvotes: 3

Dakopen
Dakopen

Reputation: 82

It's like a real browser. If you close the one and only tab, the browser closes himself. Try not to open the second Tab in a new Tab, just use the other you don't want anymore.

Upvotes: 0

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