How to open new tab in same browser and switch between them using Selenium

Question

I want to create an automation script that opens a webpage and opens a new tab in the same browser window. Can anyone please suggest how this can be done in Selenium Webdriver?

Answer 1

Hi Mugdha, you can use following code snippet to open a new tab in current browser and switch between the tabs:

import java.util.Set;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;


public class NewTabBrowser {

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\Users\\Abha_Rathour\\Downloads\\ExtractedFiles\\geckodriver-v0.24.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe"); 

WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver();

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(3000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);

    driver.get("https://business.twitter.com/en/solutions/twitter-ads.html");

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

    Set <String> windowHandles = driver.getWindowHandles();

    System.out.println(windowHandles.size());

    for(String winHandle : driver.getWindowHandles()){

        driver.switchTo().window(winHandle);

    }

    driver.navigate().to("http://www.google.com");

}

}

For further understanding, you can refer to the Selenium Course.