How do I change focus to a new popup tab in Selenium?

Question

I\'m using Selenium and Firefox.

I have a link on a page (say linkA) that opens a new page in a new tab. The new tab is displayed when linkA is clicked. I then w

Answer 1

Did you try adding a windowFocus between selectWindow and click linkB?

Edit: selectWindow takes a Javascript windowID. Does your linkA specify a windowID for Selenium to access?

Here is the full first test page (t1.html), in the window.open call the 2nd parameter is 'WindowTest', this is the javascript windowID that selenium looks for.

 test

Here is the second test page (t2.html):

2test2

Running your script ends up with the popup window on t1.html My script

click              link=test
pause              5000
selectWindow       WindowTest
windowFocus
click              link=2test2