Question

How to close active/current tab without closing the browser in Selenium-Python?

Answer 1

Hello Kabir, if you want to close only active tab and need to keep the browser window open, you can make use of switch_to.window method which has the input parameter as window handle-id. Following example shows how to achieve this automation:

from selenium import webdriver
import time

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('https://www.google.com')

driver.execute_script("window.open('');")
time.sleep(5)

driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1])
driver.get("https://facebook.com")
time.sleep(5)

driver.close()
time.sleep(5)

driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0])
driver.get("https://www.yahoo.com")
time.sleep(5)

#driver.close()

You can get a better understanding with the Selenium online training.

Answer 2

You can try the following:

1. Switch to the new opened tab.
2. Close the current windows (in this case, the new tab).
3. Switch back to the first window. browser.getAllWindowHandles().then(function (handles) { browser.driver.switchTo().window(handles[1]); browser.driver.close(); browser.driver.switchTo().window(handles[0]); });

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

Answer 3

While doing stuff with selenium multiple browsers with multiple tabs will normally opens in order to close these tabs close() and quit() methods are used. close() method is used to close the current browser window on which the focus is set, on the other hand quit() method essentially calls the driver.dispose method that successively closes all the browser windows and ends the WebDriver session graciously.

Syntax :

driver.close()
driver.quit()