Handle multiple tabs in a browser using selenium

Question

How to handle multiple tabs in a browser using selenium in Java? Suppose i have 5 tabs open, is there any way to travel between the tabs open? If there is a way then can someone please explain me how it is done?

Answer 1

Selenium has driver.getWindowHandles() and driver.switchTo().window("{windowHandleName}") commands to work with multiple windows.

The getWindowHandles() command returns a list of ids corresponding to each window and on passing a particular window handle to driver.switchTo().window("{windowHandleName}") command we can switch control/focus to that particular window.

for (String windowHandle : driver.getWindowHandles()) {
     driver.switchTo().window(handle);
}