selenium get current url after loading a page

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I m using Selenium Webdriver in Java  I want to get the current url after clicking the  next  button to move from page 1 to page 2  Here s the code I have       WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver        String startURL     a starting url      String currentURL   null      WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  10        foo driver startURL           go to next page        if driver findElement By xpath       id  someID      isDisplayed             driver findElement By xpath       id  someID      click              driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 30  TimeUnit SECONDS           wait until ExpectedConditions visibilityOfElementLocated By xpath       id  someID                currentURL   driver getCurrentUrl            System out println currentURL              I have both the implicit and explicit wait calls to wait for the page to be fully loaded before I get the current url  However  it s still printing out the url for page 1  it s expected to be the url for page 2

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It s been a little while since I coded with selenium  but your code looks ok to me  One thing to note is that if the element is not found  but the timeout is passed  I think the code will continue to execute  So you can do something like this   boolean exists   driver findElements By xpath       id  someID      size      0   What does the above boolean return  And are you sure selenium actually navigates to the expected page   That may sound like a silly question but are you actually watching the pages change    selenium can be run remotely you know

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Like you said since the xpath for the next button is the same on every page it won t work  It s working as coded in that it does wait for the element to be displayed but since it s already displayed then the implicit wait doesn t apply because it doesn t need to wait at all  Why don t you use the fact that the url changes since from your code it appears to change when the next button is clicked  I do C  but I guess in Java it would be something like   WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver    String startURL     a starting url  String currentURL   null  WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  10    foo driver startURL       go to next page    if driver findElement By xpath       id  someID      isDisplayed         String previousURL   driver getCurrentUrl        driver findElement By xpath       id  someID      click          driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 30  TimeUnit SECONDS        ExpectedCondition e   new ExpectedCondition lt Boolean gt                public Boolean apply WebDriver d                return  d getCurrentUrl      previousURL                               wait until e       currentURL   driver getCurrentUrl        System out println currentURL

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Page 2 is in a new tab window   If it s this  use the code bellow     try        String winHandleBefore   driver getWindowHandle         for String winHandle   driver getWindowHandles             driver switchTo   window winHandle           String act   driver getCurrentUrl               catch Exception e      System out println  fail

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