How to open a link in new tab (chrome) using Selenium WebDriver?

Question

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\softwares\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.get("https://mail.google.com/");
String selectLinkOpeninNewTab = Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,Keys.RETURN); 
driver.findElement(By.linkText("www.facebook.com")).sendKeys(selectLinkOpeninNewTab);

New tab is opening but URL link is not opening.

Answer 1

I checked with below code and it works fine for me. I found answer from here.

    driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.manage().window().maximize();

    baseUrl = "http://www.google.co.uk/";
    driver.get(baseUrl);
    driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL +"t");

    ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String> (driver.getWindowHandles());
    driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(1)); //switches to new tab
    driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");

    driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(0)); // switch back to main screen        
    driver.get("https://www.news.google.com");

Answer 2

this below code works for me in Selenium 3 and chrome version 58.

    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.get("http://yahoo.com");  
    ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.open()");
    ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String>(driver.getWindowHandles());
    driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(1));
    driver.get("http://google.com");

Answer 3

I have tried other techniques, but none of them worked, also no error produced, but when I have used the code below, it worked for me.

((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.open()");
ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String>(driver.getWindowHandles());
driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(1));
driver.get("http://google.com");

Answer 4

First open empty new Tab by using the keys Ctrl + t and then use .get() to fetch the URL you want. Your code should look something like this -

String selectLinkOpeninNewTab = Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,"t");
driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).sendKeys(selectLinkOpeninNewTab);

driver.get("www.facebook.com");

If you want to open a link on the current view in a new tab then the code you've written above can be used. Instead of By.linkText() make sure you use the appropriate By selector class to select the web element.

Answer 5

I had used the below code to open a new tab in the browser using C# selenium..

IJavaScriptExecutor js = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;

js.ExecuteScript("window.open();");

Answer 6

Selenium can only automate on the WebElements of the browser. Opening a new tab is an operation performed on the webBrowser which is a stand alone application. For doing this you can make use of the Robot class from the java.util.* package which can perform operations using the keyboard regardless of what type of application it is. So here's the code for your operation. Note that you cannot automate stand alone applications using the Robot class but you can perform keyboard or mouse operations

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","softwares\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe"); 
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20,TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
Robot rob = new Robot();
rob.keyPress(keyEvent.VK_CONTROL);
rob.keyPress(keyEvent.VK_T);
rob.keyRelease(keyEvent.VK_CONTROL);
rob.keyRelease(keyEvent.VK_T);

After this step you will need a window iterator to switch to the new tab:

Set <String> ids = driver.getWindowHandles();
Iterator <String> it = ids.iterator();
String currentWindow = it.next();
String newWindow = it.next();
driver.switchTo().window(newWindow);
driver.findElement(By.linkText("www.facebook.com")).sendKeys(selectLinkOpeninNewTab);

Answer 7

If you can get the link element you can use this. It will also take you to the tab that you have opened.

WebElement link= driver.findElement(By.tagname("a"));  
String keyString =   Keys.CONTROL+Keys.SHIFT.toString()+Keys.ENTER.toString());
link.sendKeys(keyString);

Answer 8

You can open multiple browser or a window by using below code:

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://yahoo.com");  

WebDriver driver1 = new ChromeDriver();
driver1.get("google.com");

WebDriver driver2 = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver2.get("google.com/gmap");