How to switch to the new browser window, which opens after click on the button?

Java Selenium Selenium Webdriver Webdriver New Window

Java Problem Overview

I have situation, when click on button opens the new browser window with search results.

Is there any way to connect and focus to new opened browser window?

And work with it, then return back to original(first) window.

Java Solutions

Solution 1 - Java

You can switch between windows as below:

// Store the current window handle
String winHandleBefore = driver.getWindowHandle();

// Perform the click operation that opens new window

// Switch to new window opened
for(String winHandle : driver.getWindowHandles()){
    driver.switchTo().window(winHandle);
}

// Perform the actions on new window

// Close the new window, if that window no more required
driver.close();

// Switch back to original browser (first window)
driver.switchTo().window(winHandleBefore);

// Continue with original browser (first window)

Solution 2 - Java

Just to add to the content ...

To go back to the main window(default window) .

use driver.switchTo().defaultContent();

Solution 3 - Java

This script helps you to switch over from a Parent window to a Child window and back cntrl to Parent window

String parentWindow = driver.getWindowHandle();
Set<String> handles =  driver.getWindowHandles();
   for(String windowHandle  : handles)
       {
       if(!windowHandle.equals(parentWindow))
          {
          driver.switchTo().window(windowHandle);
         <!--Perform your operation here for new window-->
         driver.close(); //closing child window
         driver.switchTo().window(parentWindow); //cntrl to parent window
          }
       }

Solution 4 - Java

Surya, your way won't work, because of two reasons:

you can't close driver during evaluation of test as it will loose focus, before switching to active element, and you'll get NoSuchWindowException.
if test are run on ChromeDriver you`ll get not a window, but tab on click in your application. As SeleniumDriver can't act with tabs, only switchs between windows, it hangs on click where new tab is being opening, and crashes on timeout.

Solution 5 - Java

Modify registry for IE:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Right-click → New → String Value → Value name: TabProcGrowth (create if not exist)
TabProcGrowth (right-click) → Modify... → Value data: 0

Source: Selenium WebDriver windows switching issue in Internet Explorer 8-10

For my case, IE began detecting new window handles after the registry edit.

Taken from the MSDN Blog:

> Tab Process Growth : Sets the rate at which IE creates New Tab processes. > > The "Max-Number" algorithm: This specifies the maximum number of tab processes that may be executed for a single isolation session for a single frame process at a specific mandatory integrity level (MIC). Relative values are: > > - TabProcGrowth=0 : tabs and frames run within the same process; frames are not unified across MIC levels. > - TabProcGrowth =1: all tabs for a given frame process run in a single tab process for a given MIC level. > > Source: Opening a New Tab may launch a New Process with Internet Explorer 8.0

Internet Options:

Security → Untick Enable Protected Mode for all zones (Internet, Local intranet, Trusted sites, Restricted sites)
Advanced → Security → Untick Enable Enhanced Protected Mode

Code:

> Browser: IE11 x64 (Zoom: 100%)
> OS: Windows 7 x64
> Selenium: 3.5.1
> WebDriver: IEDriverServer x64 3.5.1

public static String openWindow(WebDriver driver, By by) throws IOException {
String parentHandle = driver.getWindowHandle(); // Save parent window
WebElement clickableElement = driver.findElement(by);
clickableElement.click(); // Open child window
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10); // Timeout in 10s
boolean isChildWindowOpen = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.numberOfWindowsToBe(2));
if (isChildWindowOpen) {
    Set<String> handles = driver.getWindowHandles();
    // Switch to child window
    for (String handle : handles) {
        driver.switchTo().window(handle);
        if (!parentHandle.equals(handle)) {
            break;
        }
    }
    driver.manage().window().maximize();
}
return parentHandle; // Returns parent window if need to switch back
}



/* How to use method */
String parentHandle = Selenium.openWindow(driver, by);

// Do things in child window
driver.close();

// Return to parent window
driver.switchTo().window(parentHandle);

The above code includes an if-check to make sure you are not switching to the parent window as Set<T> has no guaranteed ordering in Java. WebDriverWait appears to increase the chance of success as supported by below statement.

Quoted from Luke Inman-Semerau: (Developer for Selenium)

> The browser may take time to acknowledge the new window, and you may > be falling into your switchTo() loop before the popup window appears. > > You automatically assume that the last window returned by > getWindowHandles() will be the last one opened. That's not necessarily > true, as they are not guaranteed to be returned in any order. > > Source: Unable to handle a popup in IE,control is not transferring to popup window

Solution 6 - Java

You could use:

driver.SwitchTo().Window(WindowName);

Where WindowName is a string representing the name of the window you want to switch focus to. Call this function again with the name of the original window to get back to it when you are done.

Solution 7 - Java

I use iterator and a while loop to store the various window handles and then switch back and forth.

//Click your link
driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath")).click();
//Get all the window handles in a set
Set <String> handles =driver.getWindowHandles();
Iterator<String> it = handles.iterator();
//iterate through your windows
while (it.hasNext()){
String parent = it.next();
String newwin = it.next();
driver.switchTo().window(newwin);
//perform actions on new window
driver.close();
driver.switchTo().window(parent);
			}

Solution 8 - Java

 main you can do :
            
 String mainTab = page.goToNewTab ();
 //do what you want
 page.backToMainPage(mainTab);  
    
 What you need to have in order to use the main   
        
        private static Set<String> windows;
            
            //get all open windows 
            //return current window
            public String initWindows() {
                windows = new HashSet<String>();
                driver.getWindowHandles().stream().forEach(n ->   windows.add(n));
                return driver.getWindowHandle();
            }
            
            public String getNewWindow() {
                List<String> newWindow = driver.getWindowHandles().stream().filter(n -> windows.contains(n) == false)
                        .collect(Collectors.toList());
                logger.info(newWindow.get(0));
                return newWindow.get(0);
            }
            
            
            public String goToNewTab() {
                String startWindow = driver.initWindows();
                driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("XX")).click();
                String newWindow = driver.getNewWindow();
                driver.switchTo().window(newWindow);
                return startWindow;
            }
            
            public void backToMainPage(String startWindow) {
                driver.close();
                driver.switchTo().window(startWindow);
            }

Solution 9 - Java

So the problem with a lot of these solutions is you're assuming the window appears instantly (nothing happens instantly, and things happen significantly less instantly in IE). Also you're assuming that there will only be one window prior to clicking the element, which is not always the case. Also IE will not return the window handles in a predictable order. So I would do the following.

 public String clickAndSwitchWindow(WebElement elementToClick, Duration 
    timeToWaitForWindowToAppear) {
    Set<String> priorHandles = _driver.getWindowHandles();

    elementToClick.click();
    try {
        new WebDriverWait(_driver,
                timeToWaitForWindowToAppear.getSeconds()).until(
                d -> {
                    Set<String> newHandles = d.getWindowHandles();
                    if (newHandles.size() > priorHandles.size()) {
                        for (String newHandle : newHandles) {
                            if (!priorHandles.contains(newHandle)) {
                                d.switchTo().window(newHandle);
                                return true;
                            }
                        }
                        return false;
                    } else {
                        return false;
                    }

                });
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Logging.log_AndFail("Encountered error while switching to new window after clicking element " + elementToClick.toString()
                + " seeing error: \n" + e.getMessage());
    }

    return _driver.getWindowHandle();
}

Solution 10 - Java

This feature works with Selenium 4 and later versions.

// Opens a new tab and switches to new tab
driver.switchTo().newWindow(WindowType.TAB);

// Opens a new window and switches to new window
driver.switchTo().newWindow(WindowType.WINDOW);

Solution 11 - Java

If you have more then one browser (using java 8)

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class TestLink {

  private static Set<String> windows;

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.get("file:///C:/Users/radler/Desktop/myLink.html");
    setWindows(driver);
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//body/a")).click();
    // get new window
    String newWindow = getWindow(driver);
    driver.switchTo().window(newWindow);

    // Perform the actions on new window
    String text = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".active")).getText();
    System.out.println(text);

    driver.close();
    // Switch back
    driver.switchTo().window(windows.iterator().next());

    
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//body/a")).click();

  }

  private static void setWindows(WebDriver driver) {
    windows = new HashSet<String>();
    driver.getWindowHandles().stream().forEach(n -> windows.add(n));
  }

  private static String getWindow(WebDriver driver) {
    List<String> newWindow = driver.getWindowHandles().stream()
        .filter(n -> windows.contains(n) == false).collect(Collectors.toList());
    System.out.println(newWindow.get(0));
    return newWindow.get(0);
  }

}

Content Type	Original Author	Original Content on Stackoverflow
Question	Volodymyr Prysiazhniuk	View Question on Stackoverflow
Solution 1 - Java	Surya	View Answer on Stackoverflow
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How to switch to the new browser window, which opens after click on the button?

Java Problem Overview

Java Solutions

Solution 1 - Java

Solution 2 - Java

Solution 3 - Java

Solution 4 - Java

Solution 5 - Java

Modify registry for IE:

Taken from the MSDN Blog:

Internet Options:

Code:

Quoted from Luke Inman-Semerau: (Developer for Selenium)

Solution 6 - Java

Solution 7 - Java

Solution 8 - Java

Solution 9 - Java

Solution 10 - Java

Solution 11 - Java

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Java Problem Overview

Java Solutions

Solution 1 - Java

Solution 2 - Java

Solution 3 - Java

Solution 4 - Java

Solution 5 - Java

Modify registry for IE:

Taken from the MSDN Blog:

Internet Options:

Code:

Quoted from Luke Inman-Semerau: (Developer for Selenium)

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Solution 6 - Java

Solution 7 - Java

Solution 8 - Java

Solution 9 - Java

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