How to open a new tab using Selenium WebDriver?

Question

How to open a new tab in the existing Firefox browser using Selenium WebDriver (a.k.a. Selenium 2)?

Answer 1

*JAVA

I recommend to using JavascriptExecutor:

• Open new blank window:

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("window.open()");

• Open new window with specific url:

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("window.open('https://google.com')");

Following import:

import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;

Answer 2

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL +"t");

ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String> (driver.getWindowHandles());

driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(0));

Answer 3

Just for anyone else who's looking for an answer in Ruby/Python/C# bindings (Selenium 2.33.0).

Note that the actual keys to send depend on your OS, for example, Mac uses COMMAND + t, instead of CONTROL + t.

Ruby

require 'selenium-webdriver'

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.get('http://stackoverflow.com/')

body = driver.find_element(:tag_name => 'body')
body.send_keys(:control, 't')

driver.quit

Python

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com/")

body = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("body")
body.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 't')

driver.close()

C#

using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;

namespace StackOverflowTests {

    class OpenNewTab {

        static void Main(string[] args) {

            IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://stackoverflow.com/");

            IWebElement body = driver.FindElement(By.TagName("body"));
            body.SendKeys(Keys.Control + 't');

            driver.Quit();
        }
    }
}

Answer 4

To open a new tab in the existing Chrome browser using Selenium WebDriver you can use this code:

driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("body")).SendKeys(Keys.Control + "t");        
string newTabInstance = driver.WindowHandles[driver.WindowHandles.Count-1].ToString();
driver.SwitchTo().Window(newTabInstance);
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(url);

Answer 5

This line of code will open a new browser tab using selenium webdriver

((JavascriptExecutor)getDriver()).executeScript("window.open()");