Handling Multiple Tabs/Windows In Selenium WebDriver

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Handling Multiple Tabs/Windows In Selenium WebDriver

In real-time scenarios, we come across a few challenges when we click on a web element in the webpage and if it redirects to a new web page / new tab still the driver focus will remain on main page where we have clicked the web element from.

In order to move focus on this newly opened window/tab, we use Window Handles and switch to the window.

Below are methods in the selenium web driver to handle newly opened windows/tabs.

driver.getWindowHandles()

will return the id of the window which is in string format and each window has a unique id.

driver.getWindowHandle()

This will return the id of the window which is in focus currently.

Below is an example of handling new windows/tab using 'driver.getWindowHandles()'

In the below example we are switching driver focus to the window whose title matches with the title mentioned in our condition and closing it.

Below is example of handling new windows/tab using driver.getWindowHandle():

 
  // Solution.java
  public class PrimeExample {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        int i, m = 0, flag = 0;
        int n = 3; //it is the number to be checked    
        m = n / 2;
        if (n == 0 || n == 1) {
            System.out.println(n + " is not prime number");
        } else {
            for (i = 2; i <= m; i++) {
                if (n % i == 0) {
                    System.out.println(n + " is not prime number");
                    flag = 1;
                    break;
                }
            }
            if (flag == 0) {
                System.out.println(n + " is prime number");
            }
        } //end of else  
    }
}
  

In below example, we are closing the parent window using the parent window id

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","Chrome driver path");
WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();		
driver.get("http://demo.guru99.com/popup.php");			
driver.manage().window().maximize();	
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(@href,'popup.php')]")).click();
// will return the id of the window where the driver focus is on.
String MainPage=driver.getWindowHandle();	
Set  s = driver.getWindowHandles();
for(String i: s){
if(i.equals(MainPage)
{
 driver.close();}
}