How to perform browser navigations in Selenium?

There are various navigate() methods to perform navigations in Selenium. They are as the listed below −

• navigate().to(url)

  This is used to launch a new browser and open a particular URL as in the parameter.

• navigate().refresh()

  This is used to reload a page.

• navigate().back()

  This is used to jump to the previous page as per browser history context.

• navigate().forward()

  This is used to jump to the next page as per browser history context.

Example

import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.Keys; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; import java.util.List; public class BrowserNavigation {    public static void main(String[] args) {       System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\Users\ghs6kor\Desktop\Java\chromedriver.exe");       WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();       String url = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm";       // new browser will launch and navigate to the URL       driver.navigate().to(url);       driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(12, TimeUnit.SECONDS);       // refresh the current browser       driver.navigate().refresh();       //Using id tagname attribute combination for css expression       driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[name=’search’]")).       sendKeys("Selenium");       //browser will go back to the previous page       driver.navigate().back();       //browser will go move to the next page       driver.navigate().forward();       driver.close();    } }