How to switch to new window in Selenium for Python

Question

I am working on selenium automation project using Python   I am facing an issue  which is handling multiple browser windows   Scenario is as follows  When I click a link on the home page  a new window opens  In the newly opened window I cannot perform any actions  because the focus is still on the home page web driver   Can anybody show me how to change focus from the background window to the newly opened window   A possible solution is driver switch to window    but it requires the window s name  How to find out the window s name  If this is a wrong way to do this  can anybody give some code examples to perform this action

User · Answer

We can handle the different windows by moving between named windows using the “switchTo” method:

driver.switch_to.window("windowName")

<a href="somewhere.html" target="windowName">Click here to open a new window</a>

Alternatively, you can pass a “window handle” to the “switchTo().window()” method. Knowing this, it’s possible to iterate over every open window like so:

for handle in driver.window_handles:
    driver.switch_to.window(handle)

User · Answer

window handles should give you the references to all open windows   this is what the docu has to say about switching windows

User · Answer

for eg  you may take  driver get  https   www naukri com      since  it is a current window  we can name it  main page   driver current window handle   if there are atleast 1 window popup except the current window you may try this method and put if condition in break statement by hit n trial for the index  for handle in driver window handles      if handle    main page          print handle          login page   handle         break  driver switch to window login page    Now  whatever the credentials you have to apply provide after it is loggen in  Window will disappear  but you have to come to main page window and you are done  driver switch to window main page  sleep 10

User · Answer

You can do it by using window handles and switch to window method  Before clicking the link first store the window handle as window before   driver window handles 0   after clicking the link store the window handle of newly opened window as window after   driver window handles 1   then execute the switch to window method to move to newly opened window driver switch to window window after   and similarly you can switch between old and new window  Following is the code example import unittest from selenium import webdriver  class GoogleOrgSearch unittest TestCase        def setUp self           self driver   webdriver Firefox        def test google search page self           driver   self driver         driver get  quot http   www cdot in quot           window before   driver window handles 0          print window before         driver find element by xpath  quot   a  href  http   www cdot in home htm   quot   click           window after   driver window handles 1          driver switch to window window after          print window after         driver find element by link text  quot ATM quot   click           driver switch to window window before       def tearDown self           self driver close    if   name       quot   main   quot       unittest main

User · Answer

On top of the answers already given  to open a new tab the javascript command window open   can be used   For example     Opens a new tab self driver execute script  window open        Switch to the newly opened tab self driver switch to window self driver window handles 1      Navigate to new URL in new tab self driver get  https   google com     Run other commands in the new tab here   You re then able to close the original tab as follows    Switch to original tab self driver switch to window self driver window handles 0      Close original tab self driver close      Switch back to newly opened tab  which is now in position 0 self driver switch to window self driver window handles 0     Or close the newly opened tab    Close current tab self driver close      Switch back to original tab self driver switch to window self driver window handles 0     Hope this helps

[python] How to switch to new window in Selenium for Python?

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