Working With Windows in Selenium Web Drivers

IN Web Application, it may be possible that once you open the browser then multiple windows open. These windows may have advertisement or other useful information. it may be also possible that once user will click on any link then a new window or new tab will open. So in this article we will handle these multiple windows using Selenium Web Driver.

Here user will need method to handle main window by using getWindowHandle() then we need to handles all other new windows opening by getWindowHandles() method.

getWindowHandle() Return an opaque handle to this window that uniquely identifies it within this driver instance while getWindowHandles() Return a set of window handles which can be used to iterate over all open windows of this WebDriver instance by passing them to switchTo().WebDriver.Options.window()


package testPackage; package testPackage; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.Set; import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; import org.testng.annotations.Test; public class TestClass { public WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); @Test public void testWindowHandles() { driver.get("http://www.hdfcbank.com"); driver.manage().window().maximize(); //First try to get the Id of the current window String parentWindowId = driver.getWindowHandle(); System.out.println(parentWindowId); driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='loginsubmit']")).click(); //First try to get the Id of the child window and total windows count Set<string> set = driver.getWindowHandles(); System.out.println(set.size()); Iterator<string> iterator = set.iterator(); while(iterator.hasNext()) { String childWindow = iterator.next(); if(!parentWindowId.equalsIgnoreCase(childWindow)) { //Here switch to the child window to perform action over child window driver.switchTo().window(childWindow); String titleChildWindow = driver.getTitle(); System.out.println(titleChildWindow); } } driver.close(); } }