How to open a link embeded in a webelement with in the main tab, in a new tab of the same window using Control + Click of Selenium Webdriver

Question

There is a link embedded in a web element in the Main Tab, I want to open that link in a new tab in the same window using Selenium Webdriver and python. Perform some tasks i

Answer 1

This is trick can be achieve if your locator return a correct href.

Try this first:

href = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div[data-res-position = '1']").get_attribute("href")
print(href)

If you get correct href, you can do:

#handle current tab
first_tab = driver.window_handles[0]

#open new tab with specific url
driver.execute_script("window.open('" +href +"');")

#hadle new tab
second_tab = driver.window_handles[1]

#switch to second tab
driver.switch_to.window(second_tab)

#switch to first tab
driver.switch_to.window(first_tab)

Hope this helps.