Is there a way to close a tab in WebDriver or Protractor?

Question

Is there a way to physically close a tab via Protractor or WebDriver?

I ask because while I know how to switch tabs programmatically, but it does not bring the acti

Answer 1

C# Version of Sakshi's answer:

   var tabs = driver.WindowHandles;
   if (tabs.Count > 1)
   {
       driver.SwitchTo().Window(tabs[1]);
       driver.Close();
       driver.SwitchTo().Window(tabs[0]);
   }

Answer 2

I am using the command below to close the current tab after opening the link in new tab

Instance.Driver2.SwitchTo().Window(Instance.Driver2.WindowHandles[1]).Close();

Then, you can switch to the last tab by issue the command:

Instance.Driver2.SwitchTo().Window(Instance.Driver2.WindowHandles[0]);

Answer 3

Close all tabs except first one and switch to first tab:

var tabs = driver.WindowHandles; // 

foreach (var tab in tabs)
{
     // "tab" is a string like "CDwindow-6E793DA3E15E2AB5D6AE36A05344C68"
     if (tabs[0] != tab) 
     {                                    
         driver.SwitchTo().Window(tab); 
         driver.Close();
     }
}

driver.SwitchTab(tabs[0]); // Switch to first tab
driver.SwitchTo().DefaultContent(); // Switch to default frame

Pay attention to last two lines, they are need to avoid such errors like OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchWindowException: no such window: target window already closed from unknown error: web view not found

Answer 4

You can use driver.close and then switch to active tab driver.SwitchTo().Window(m_driver.WindowHandles.First()); or any another available tab

Answer 5

As Sakshi Singla answered, browser.driver.close() is worked for me ,Please see the sample spec.js for a Protractor Jasmine.

describe('Window handle', function() {  
      //Each single it function is a test script
      it('Navigae to the site', function() {
        browser.driver.ignoreSynchronization = true;
        browser.waitForAngularEnabled(false);     
        browser.driver.get('http://demo.automationtesting.in/Windows.html');    

      });

      it('handle the new window', function() {
          //This will open a new popup
            element(by.buttonText('click')).click();
          var winHandles=browser.getAllWindowHandles();
          winHandles.then(function(handles) 
          {
              var parentWindow=handles[0];
              var popUpWindow=handles[1];
              browser.switchTo().window(popUpWindow);
//verify title in the new window
              expect(browser.getTitle()).toEqual('Sakinalium | Home');
              element(by.linkText('Contact')).click();
//To close the popup
               browser.driver.close();
             //verify title in the parent window
              browser.switchTo().window(parentWindow);
              expect(browser.getTitle()).toEqual('Frames & windows');             
              element(by.linkText('Open Seperate Multiple Windows')).click();
              browser.sleep(7500);
          })
          });


})

Answer 6

First of all, selenium does not provide a reliable cross-browser API to work with browser tabs. A common approach to open or close a tab (although not quite reliable) is to invoke browser shortcuts for Chrome:

• open tab: CTRL/COMMAND + T
• close tab: CTRL/COMMAND + W

In protractor, find the body element and "send keys" to it:

var body = element(by.tagName("body"));
body.sendKeys(protractor.Key.chord(protractor.Key.CONTROL, "t"))
body.sendKeys(protractor.Key.chord(protractor.Key.CONTROL, "w"))

Or, using browser.actions():

browser.actions().keyDown(protractor.Key.CONTROL).sendKeys('t').perform();
browser.actions().keyDown(protractor.Key.CONTROL).sendKeys('w').perform();

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Also, to open a new tab, there is an interesting hack (introduced here), which basically injects a new a element into the page and invokes click mouse event:

function openNewTab (url) {
    return browser.driver.executeScript(function(url) {(
        function(a, url){
            document.body.appendChild(a);
            a.setAttribute('href', url);
            a.dispatchEvent((function(e){
                e.initMouseEvent("click", true, true, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, true, false, false, false, 0, null);
                return e;
            }(document.createEvent('MouseEvents'))))
        }(document.createElement('a'), url)
    );
    }, url)
};

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There is also window.close() function, but it would not close the tab if it was not opened via window.open() (reference). In other words, if this is a tab you manually open, then you can use window.open() -> window.close() approach with the help of browser.executeScript().