Selenium ChromeDriver switch tabs

Question

When I click on a link in my test, it opens a new tab. I want ChromeDriver to then focus on that tab. I have tried the following code to get ChromeDriver to change tabas using

Answer 1

In C# I used the below lines to switch between the two tab.

IJavaScriptExecutor js = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;   
js.ExecuteScript("window.open();");   
IList tabs = new List(driver.WindowHandles);    
driver.SwitchTo().Window(tabs[1]);
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.google.com");