In Selenium how to handle a new window?

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I am writing a selenium script to login and create new mail, send it and logout. But when I click on New mail button, it opens a new window. In selenium how I can handle this. I am new to selenium. Please explain in detail.

Possible duplicate of [how to handle mutliple windows in selenium webdriver ,need to switch from second to third window](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45455402/how-to-handle-mutliple-windows-in-selenium-webdriver-need-to-switch-from-second) — undetected Selenium, Aug 03 '17 at 06:19

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '17 at 06:24

Use the below code, you have to use getWindowHandles- I hope it helps, Let me know in case you get stuck anywhere else -

 @Test
        public void multipleWindows() {
            driver.get(URL+"/windows");
            driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".example a")).click();
            Object[] allWindows = driver.getWindowHandles().toArray();
            driver.switchTo().window(allWindows[0].toString());
            Assert.assertNotEquals(driver.getTitle(), "New Window");
            driver.switchTo().window(allWindows[1].toString());
            Assert.assertEquals(driver.getTitle(), "New Window");
        }
    }

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 11 '18 at 17:43

How to get Window Handle:
String handle = driver.getWindowHandle();
If there are multiple window gets opened when you click on any link,button etc... then to get "window Handle" of each window -
Set windowHandles = driver.getWindowHandles();

"getWindowHandles()" : method return window handle (unique id for each opened window) so that the return type is set. Because set will not contain duplicate elements so here getWindowHandles return unique id/window handles for each winodw and stored in Set.

How to switch to correct / appropriate window:
Basically there are two ways to switch to appropriate window.

By using windowName driver.switchTo().window( "windowName" );
OR

To get current/parent/default window handle:

String handle = driver.getWindowHandle();
driver.switchTo().window( handle  );
OR
Set < String > windowHandles = driver.getWindowHandles();

for(String handle : windowHandles )
 {
     driver.swicthTo().window( handle ); 
}

Example of Handling Multiple Windows In Selenium

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 05 '17 at 13:19

Try this code, it is very easy to understand.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://demo.guru99.com/popup.php");

driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/p/a")).click();

// return the parent window name as a String
 String parentWindow=driver.getWindowHandle();
 driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);


// Pass a window handle to the other window
for(String childWindow: driver.getWindowHandles())
    {
      System.out.println("Switch to child window");

      //switch to child window
      driver.switchTo().window(childWindow);

      //find an element and print text of it 
    WebElement textLabel=driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/h2"));
     System.out.println(" text:  "+textLabel.getText());
     driver.close();
            }
     System.out.println("Get back to parent window");

      //switch to Parent window
      driver.switchTo().window(parentWindow);

     //find an element and print text of it 
     WebElement logotext=driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[1]/h2"));
       System.out.println("text: "+logotext.getText());
       driver.close();
        }

In Selenium how to handle a new window?

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