I have a python selenium code to test a website. Now once the driver click on a link in the 1st tab, it opens it up in a new tab, but the focus stays on the previous tab, and I am not able to reference any elements in the new tab.
How can change the focus to the new?
Also both the tabs are open in the same browser and I am using Chrome browser
name each window if you are working with a few number of windows. using this chunk you can name and switch between tabs
window1= driver.window_handles[1]
driver.switch_to_window(window1)
You can loop through the window handles, record the counts of window handles and switch with count - 1. Check below.
n = 0
for handle in driver.window_handles:
n+=1
driver.switch_to_window(n-1)
If you encounter any difficulty, please paste your code for further elucidation.
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I am trying to get the index or window id of currently visiting page not the active tab.
I am trying to access a specific tab in multiple tabs opened by bot I want to know that if user clicked on the unfocused tab e.g. tab no 3 but the active/focus tab is tab no 6. I want to shift the focus to user visiting page.
Sample code of mine which is not working.
for i in web.window_handles:
if not web.execute_script("return document.visibilityState") == "visible":
web.switch_to.window(i)
current_opened_window = web.current_window_handle
else:
current_opened_window = i
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Presumably Selenium can focus only on a specific tab at a time and to shift the focus to other tabs you need tab handling.
Hence, any click attempt on a WebElement will try to locate the element on the focused tab/page first. Incase the element isn't found NoSuchElementException would be raised.
Is there any way to determine which tab the user is viewing, like say the active tab (in selenium) is the last one and same for the user, then the user goes back to the first one, how do I know this with selenium?
From the information that has been gathered there seem to be no way to do this. What you can do is see if the current window is the active one using:
driver.execute_script("return document.visibilityState") === "visible"
But you cannot loop through the tabs and check this property since as soon as you change tab the tab you change to will also become the visible one.
While switching tabs you need to change Selenium's focus from one tab to other.
You can find a relevant detailed discussions in:
Open web in new tab Selenium + Python
How to switch window handles using Selenium and PythonHow to switch into Window using Index in
Selenium
Selenium may not have the focus on the tab you are currently visualizing. It's the user's discretion on which tab you want Selenium to focus.
You can always extract the current window handle on which Selenium have the focus using the current_window_handle attribute as follows:
print(driver.current_window_handle)
Here are my steps
1.Using selenium webdriver I am opening Edge
2.Then after click a link it opens popup security window. I am attaching a screenshot
3. I tried to switch that window using many different ways. It is not an alert because when I called for alert it says no such alerts are open.
I tried to call following but it gives error
window_after = driver.window_handles[1]
Following two lines gave me 1 handles:
handles = driver.window_handles
print("Number of handles ", len(handles))
Output:
Number of handles 1
if it is not alert, not a window, what is it? view source code does not print anything.
All i need is insert user name and password and then click "OK" button
I put the program for sleep 20 seconds and then manually selected the cursor to user name text box. The executed following code but it does nothing
ActionChains(driver).send_keys("Test").perform()
Side Note: Need answer for only for Microsoft Edge.
Selenium only works for browser automation. The Windows Security pop-up is an OS-level dialog and Selenium will not be able to recognize it. You could use third party tools like AutoIt with Selenium to automate non-browser based functionality. For the detailed steps, you could refer to this article.
I am trying to scrape data from a website, there is an url which lands me a particular page, there we have links of some items, if I click on those links, it opens in a new tab, and I can extract data from there,
But after extracting the data, I want to close the tab return to the main page and click on another link.
I am using selenium with chrome web driver. I have tried following code:
#links which lands me to a new tab
browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="data"]/div[1]/div[2]/a').click()
browser.switch_to.window(browser.window_handles[0])
browser.close() #it closes the main page, not the new tab I want
and following code,
browser.find_element_by_css_selector('body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 'w') #this code didn't work.
How to close newly constructed tab using selenium and python ?
You could try this solution.
# New tabs will be the last object in window_handles
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[-1])
# close the tab
driver.close()
# switch to the main window
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0])
Reference: http://antlong.com/common-operations-working-with-tabs-in-webdriver/
I am using the Selenium Python Bindings for web browser automation in Chrome. As part of the automation script, I click on a link and the website opens the page in a new tab. However, the WebDriver object in my python script is still pointing to the first tab.
I have tried all of the options offered on this answer but none were successful.
The only code I have been able to get to work so far is this:
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1])
The problem I have with this is that I'm afraid I can't guarantee that the new tab will be at index 1, nor do I think I can guarantee that the new tab is at the last index. I did try using keys like this:
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + Keys.TAB)
But using some logging I saw that the driver was still pointing to the first tab. Is there a way to focus on the current tab that chrome is showing?
Whenever I have cases like these I switch to the last window handle, so far it worked for me:
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[-1])