Selenium 4 – Browser New Tab

Selenium 3 does not have any feature to open a new Browser Tab though it can be done with the help of Java script executor.

Selenium 4 Alpha version has introduced a feature to open a new Browser Tab. Let’s see how it works.

Its achieved through following simple line of code

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webDriver.switchTo().newWindow(WindowType.TAB);

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Test case code

Following test case, opens gmail, opens a new tab and then loads yahoo.co.in url

package selenium4.selenium4;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WindowType;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterTest;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class seleniumNewTab {
	WebDriver webDriver = null;

	@BeforeTest
	public void beforeTest() throws InterruptedException {

		System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Selenium\\Chrome84\\chromedriver.exe");
		webDriver = new ChromeDriver();
		webDriver.manage().window().maximize();
		Thread.sleep(2000);
		webDriver.get("https://www.gmail.com/");
	}
	
	@Test
  	public void checkNewTab() {
	  webDriver.switchTo().newWindow(WindowType.TAB);
	  webDriver.get("http://www.yahoo.co.in");
	}
  
	@AfterTest
	public void afterTest() {
	  webDriver.quit();
	}
	
}

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Opening a new tab also be done using Javascript executor but it wont used any more.

((JavascriptExecutor) webDriver).executeScript("window.open()");
ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String>(webDriver.getWindowHandles());
webDriver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(1));