How to open multiple tabs and switch between through Selenium and Webdriver?

Question

I googled for this code, but not getting proper code. I have a scenario where our application having 5 modules, i want to open it on each tab because i need to switch between them multiple times plz help

this is not working:

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL +"t");

Answer 1

Using getWindowHandles you can switch url multiple time.Here first i switch url and identify the tab,Everytab should a unique url and we can identify it by url.

   for (String window : driver.getWindowHandles()) {
    driver.switchTo().window(window);
    if (driver.getCurrentUrl().contains("google.com")) {    
     //Your operation     
    }       
    if (driver.getCurrentUrl().contains("yahoo.com")) {
    }
    //Your operation
    }

For example you open google and yahoo in two tab then you can switch tab and identify the tab and do any operation there.

Hope it will help you

Answer 2

Here is the sample example to open multiple tabs and switch between them through Selenium Webdriver:

• Code Block:

   import java.util.Set; import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions; import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait; public class WINDOW_HANDLE_ITERATE_Firefox { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\\\Utility\\\\BrowserDrivers\\\\geckodriver.exe"); WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); driver.get("http://www.google.com"); String parent_window = driver.getWindowHandle(); System.out.println("Parent Window Handle is: "+driver.getWindowHandle()); System.out.println("Page Title is: "+driver.getTitle()); ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("window.open('http://facebook.com/');"); new WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(ExpectedConditions.numberOfWindowsToBe(2)); Set<String> allWindows_1 = driver.getWindowHandles(); System.out.println("Total Windows: "+allWindows_1.size()); for(String hand1:allWindows_1) if(!parent_window.equals(hand1)) { driver.switchTo().window(hand1); new WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(ExpectedConditions.titleContains("Facebook")); String first_child_window = driver.getWindowHandle(); System.out.println("First Child Window Handle is: "+first_child_window); System.out.println("First Child Window Page Title is: "+driver.getTitle()); driver.close(); } driver.switchTo().window(parent_window); System.out.println("Current Window Handle is : "+driver.getWindowHandle()+ " which is same as "+parent_window +", which is the parent window handle" ); driver.quit(); } } 

• Console Output:

   INFO: Detected dialect: W3C Parent Window Handle is: 6442450945 Page Title is: Google Total Windows: 2 First Child Window Handle is: 6442450949 First Child Window Page Title is: Facebook – log in or sign up Current Window Handle is : 6442450945 which is same as 6442450945, which is the parent window handle 

Answer 3

You may try this,

To open new tab using JavascriptExecutor,

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("window.open()");
ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String>(driver.getWindowHandles());
driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(1));

Will control on tab as according to index:

driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(1));

Driver control on main tab:

driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(0));