Error trying to close a tab and switching to the other tab using selenium / java

Question

I have a window with two tabs. I am trying to close the tab with a specific title and switch the control to the other tab. Here is my code:

public static void closeTheWindowWithTitle(String title) {

    ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String> (driver.getWindowHandles());
    String mainWindow = driver.getWindowHandle();

    for(int i = 0; i < tabs.size(); i++) {

        log.debug("switched to " + driver.getTitle() + " Window");
        if(driver.getTitle().contains(title))
        {
            driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(i));
            driver.close();
            log.debug("Closed the  " + driver.getTitle() + " Window");
        }
    }
    driver.switchTo().window(mainWindow);
}

When I run my code, I am getting the following exception:

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchWindowException: no such window: target window already closed
from unknown error: web view not found

I am unable to figure out what is the problem. Please help.

Answer 1

I'm guessing, that the WindowHandle of your Main-Window got changed, somewhere along the way. You should be able to get your problem solved by doing something similar to the suggested solution here , ie getting all WindowHandles, and iterating over them and in the end switching to [0], which should be the only one left, after closing the second one.

Answer 2

I hope this will help you to fix your issue, i dont want to provide code fix and i want to explain you the details process step by step.

Open firefox/IE/Chrome browser and Navigate to https://www.bbc.co.uk

WebDriver driver = new AnyDriveryourusing();
// set implicit time to 30 seconds
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
// navigate to the url
driver.get("https://www.bbc.co.uk");

Get the GU ID of the current (parent) window using getWindowHandle() method present in the webdriver and store the value in a String

// get the Session id of the Parent
String parentGUID = driver.getWindowHandle();

Click on the Open New Window button, application open new window with google page.

// click the button to open new window
driver.findElement(By.id("two-window")).click();
Thread.sleep(5000);

Get the GU IDs of the two windows (parent + google), using getWindowHandles() method present in the webdriver . Store the GU IDs in a Set Collection, this Set will have GU IDs of both parent and Child Browsers

// get the All the session id of the browsers
Set allGUID = driver.getWindowHandles();

iterate the Set of GUID values, and if the value is parent value skip it if not switch to the new window

// iterate the values in the set
for(String guid : allGUID){
    // one enter into if block if the GUID is not equal to parent window's GUID
    if(! guid.equals(parentGUID)){
        //todo
    }
}

Switch to window using switchTo().window() method, pass the GU ID of the child browser to this method.

// switch to the guid
driver.switchTo().window(guid);

Find the search bar in Google.com and search for "success"

driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("success");

Close the Google tab/Window and return to parent tab/browser window

// close the browser
driver.close();
// switch back to the parent window
driver.switchTo().window(parentGUID);

Answer 3

You were close but you weren't switching windows before checking the title. I've updated the code to something that should work.

public static void closeTheWindowWithTitle(String title)
{
    Set<String> tabs = driver.getWindowHandles();
    String mainWindow = driver.getWindowHandle();

    for(int i = 0; i < tabs.size(); i++)
    {
        // you need to switch to the window before checking title
        driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(i));
        log.debug("switched to " + driver.getTitle() + " Window");
        if(driver.getTitle().contains(title))
        {
            driver.close();
            log.debug("Closed the  " + driver.getTitle() + " Window");
            break; // this breaks out of the loop, which I'm assuming is what you want when a match is found
        }
    }
    driver.switchTo().window(mainWindow);
}