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Dieterlan
Dieterlan

Reputation: 13

How to distinguish between a new window and a new tab in Selenium

I want to know if there is any way to distinguish between a new window and a new tab, natively in Selenium.

On my test page there are buttons to open a page in the same window, a new window, or a new tab.

I know how to switch to the new window or tab using window handles, but I cannot distinguish between the two. How do I know if the button opened the link in a new tab, and not a new window?

i.e. in pseudocode (need code for openedInNewWindow() and openedInNewTab())

click(newTabButton);
if (openedInSameWindow()) {
    Log.Error("Link opened in same window :(");
} else if (openedInNewWindow()) {
    Log.Error("Link opened in new window :(");
} else if (openedInNewTab()) {
    Log.Success("Link opened in new tab :)");
} else {
    Log.Error("Link didn't open anything :(");
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 207

Answers (2)

Ankur Parihar
Ankur Parihar

Reputation: 495

I also couldn't find any way to do this. But if your new window has different dimensions than current window, it's easy to detect it.

// size of current active window
const originalSize = JSON.stringify(await driver.manage().window().getRect());

// open new window/tab and switch to new windowHandle
await driver.switchTo().window(windowHandle);

// get size of new window
const size = await driver.executeScript(function () {
    return { x: window.screenX, y: window.screenY, height: window.innerHeight, width: window.innerWidth };
});
/** 
* now you can compare the size with originalSize
* If they're same - it's a new tab, otherwise new window
*/

But please keep in mind, this only works well if new window is supposed to be of different dimension.

Upvotes: 0

Arjun
Arjun

Reputation: 634

Code snippet for new window,

 WebDriver newWindow = driver.switchTo().newWindow(WindowType.WINDOW);
    newWindow.get("https://blog.testproject.io/");
    System.out.println(driver.getTitle());

Code snippet for new tab,

 WebDriver newTab = driver.switchTo().newWindow(WindowType.TAB);
    newTab.get("https://testproject.io/platform/");
    System.out.println(driver.getTitle());

-Arjun

Upvotes: 1

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