How to open a new window on a browser using Selenium WebDriver for python?

We can open a new window on a browser with Selenium webdriver. There are multiple ways to achieve this. Selenium can execute commands in Javascript with the help of the execute_script() method which is one of the ways of opening a new window. Then we shall use switch_to.window() method to shift focus to a particular window at a time.

Syntax −

driver.execute_script("window.open('');")

Example

Code Implementation with execute_script() method.

from selenium import webdriver urlA = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/about/about_careers.htm" urlB = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/questions/index.php" driver = webdriver.Chrome (executable_path="C:\chromedriver.exe") # maximize with maximize_window() driver.maximize_window() driver.get(urlA) print("Page Title of urlA : " + driver.title) # open new window with execute_script() driver.execute_script("window.open('');") # switch to new window with switch_to.window() driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1]) driver.get(urlB) print("Page Title of urlB : " + driver.title) # close window in focus driver.close() # switch back to old window with switch_to.window() driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0]) print("Current Title: " + driver.title) driver.close()

Output

We can also open a new window on a browser by invoking two driver sessions simultaneously.

Example

Code Implementation.

from selenium import webdriver urlA = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/about/about_careers.htm" urlB = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/questions/index.php" driver = webdriver.Chrome (executable_path="C:\chromedriver.exe") # opening another driver session s_driver = webdriver.Chrome (executable_path="C:\chromedriver.exe") # maximize with maximize_window() driver.maximize_window() s_driver.maximize_window() driver.get(urlA) s_driver.get(urlB) print(driver.title) print(s_driver.title) driver.quit()

Output