Example of Handling Multiple Browser Windows in Selenium WebDriver

Selenium WebDriver software testing tool has built in "WebDriver.switchTo().window()" method available to switch from one window to another window so it is very easy to handle multiple windows in webdriver. If you remember, We can use "selectWindow" window command in selenium IDE software testing tool to select another window. If window do not have any title or both window has same title then it was very difficult to select other window in selenium IDE software testing tool. WebDriver software testing tool has made it very easy. You can handle multiple windows even if all the windows do not have any title or contains same title.

If you wants to work with multiple tabs then view THIS POST and wants to work with multiple IFrames then view THIS POST.

WebDriver.getWindowHandles()

In WebDriver software testing tool, We can use "WebDriver.getWindowHandles()" to get the handles of all opened windows by webdriver and then we can use that window handle to switch from from one window to another window. Example Syntax for getting window handles is as bellow.

Set<String> AllWindowHandles = driver.getWindowHandles();

WebDriver.switchTo().window()

WebDriver.switchTo().window() method is useful to switch from one window to another window of software web application. Example syntax is as bellow.

driver.switchTo().window(window2);

Bellow given webdriver example of switching window will explain you how selenium multi browser testing can be done. Execute it in your eclipse and try to understand how webdriver do it.

Copy bellow given @Test method part of handling multiple windows of webdriver and replace it with the @Test method part of example given on THIS PAGE. to check how multi browser testing using selenium works.(Note : @Test method is marked with pink color in that linked page).

Multiple browser in selenium test

@Test
  public void test () throws InterruptedException 
  {
  driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//b[contains(.,'Open New Page')]")).click();
  
  // Get and store both window handles in array
  Set<String> AllWindowHandles = driver.getWindowHandles();
  String window1 = (String) AllWindowHandles.toArray()[0];
  System.out.print("window1 handle code = "+AllWindowHandles.toArray()[0]);
  String window2 = (String) AllWindowHandles.toArray()[1];
  System.out.print("\nwindow2 handle code = "+AllWindowHandles.toArray()[1]);
  
  //Switch to window2(child window) and performing actions on it.
  driver.switchTo().window(window2);
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='fname']")).sendKeys("My Name");
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='Bike']")).click();
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='Car']")).click();
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='Boat']")).click();
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='male']")).click();
  Thread.sleep(5000);
  
  //Switch to window1(parent window) and performing actions on it.
  driver.switchTo().window(window1);
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//option[@id='country6']")).click();
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='female']")).click();
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='Show Me Alert']")).click();
  driver.switchTo().alert().accept();
  Thread.sleep(5000);
  
  //Once Again switch to window2(child window) and performing actions on it.
  driver.switchTo().window(window2);
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='fname']")).clear();
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='fname']")).sendKeys("Name Changed");
  Thread.sleep(5000);
  driver.close();
  
  
  //Once Again switch to window1(parent window) and performing actions on it.
  driver.switchTo().window(window1);
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='male']")).click();
  Thread.sleep(5000);
  
  }

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