How do I change focus to a new popup tab in Selenium?

Question

I\'m using Selenium and Firefox.

I have a link on a page (say linkA) that opens a new page in a new tab. The new tab is displayed when linkA is clicked. I then w

Answer 1

Here are the steps I took for Selenium IDE:

1. find the link in question
2. remove the attribute “target” from the link
3. copy the href destination in a variable (myUrl)
4. modify the link href->javascript:window.open(myUrl,’myWindow’)
5. click on link
6. select window ‘myWindow’

getEval | this.page().findElement(‘link=click here’).removeAttribute(‘target’)||

storeEval | this.page().findElement(‘link=click here’).href | myUrl

getEval | this.page().findElement(‘link=click here’).href=”javascript:window.open(‘${myUrl}’,'myWindow’)” ||

click | link=click here ||

pause | 1000 ||

selectWindow | name=myWindow ||