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

check this complete example to understand how to open multiple tabs and switch between the tabs and at the end close all tabs

public class Tabs {

 WebDriver driver; 

 Robot rb;


 @BeforeTest
 public void setup() throws Exception {
  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\Anuja.AnujaPC\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
  WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();
  driver.manage().window().maximize();
  driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  driver.get("http://qaautomated.com");
 }

 @Test
 public void openTab() {
  //Open tab 2 using CTRL + t keys.
  driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL +"t");


 //Open URL In 2nd tab.
  driver.get("http://www.qaautomated.com/p/contact.html");

  //Call switchToTab() method to switch to 1st tab
  switchToTab(); 


  //Call switchToTab() method to switch to 2nd tab.
  switchToTab();


 } 

 public void switchToTab() {
  //Switching between tabs using CTRL + tab keys.
  driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL +"\t");
  //Switch to current selected tab's content.
  driver.switchTo().defaultContent();  
 } 



@AfterTest
 public void closeTabs() throws AWTException {
  //Used Robot class to perform ALT + SPACE + 'c' keypress event.
  rb =new Robot();
  rb.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
  rb.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_SPACE);
  rb.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_C);
 } }

This example is given by this web page