How to Handle multiple windows using Selenium WebDriver ?
Some time when a user clicks on a button or link within a web page , a new window is opened and the user has to switch to that window and perform a task on that or may be needed to perform tasks on all the opened windows so in this tutorial we will learn about windows handling in selenium.
we can automate above activity using selenium web driver .So in this tutorials we will understand how to handle multiple windows using selenium
Below are few methods in selenium through we can handle windows multiple windowsÂ
driver.getWindowHandles() –Â
- This method helps to store the set of handles for all the windows opened.
- Return Type of This method is Iterator<String>.
driver.getWindowHandle() –
- This method helps to fetch or get the handle of the web page which is in focus.Â
- Return Type of this method is String.
Using the scenario below , We will understand How to Handle multiple windows using the above methods.
- Launch the browserÂ
- Open URL: https://tutorialshut.com/demo-website-for-selenium-automation-practice/
- Click on Button ‘New Browser Window’ and a child windows will be opened
- Switch to child Window and get the Page title of Child window
- Close the child window and switch to Parent Window
- Close the parent window
Code Implementation
package com.test;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class HandleMultipleWindows {
public static WebDriver driver;
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
// Create a new instance of the Chrome driver
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\Drivers\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
// Launch the URL
driver.get("https://tutorialshut.com/demo-website-for-selenium-automation-practice/");
// Maximize the window
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[text()='New Browser Window']")).click();
String MainWindow = driver.getWindowHandle();
// To handle all new opened window.
Set<String> s1 = driver.getWindowHandles();
Iterator<String> i1 = s1.iterator();
while (i1.hasNext()) {
String ChildWindow = i1.next();
if (!MainWindow.equalsIgnoreCase(ChildWindow)) {
// Switching to Child window
driver.switchTo().window(ChildWindow);
// get the page title of Child window
String childPageTitle = driver.getTitle();
System.out.println("Title of Child Page is :" + childPageTitle);
// Closing the Child Window.
driver.close();
}
}
// Switching to Parent window i.e Main Window.
driver.switchTo().window(MainWindow);
}
}
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