Open Link in New Tab – Selenium Java

Open Link in New Tab

To open a link in new tab using Selenium in Java, execute JavaScript code to open a new window from the current window using JavaScriptExecutor.executeScript(), and then we may switch to the new tab using WebDriver.switchTo().

The following is a simple code snippet where we open a new tab, switch to the new tab, and then hit a URL in the tab.

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.open()");
ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String>(driver.getWindowHandles());
driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(tabs.size()-1));
driver.get("https://www.tutorialkart.com/");

Example

In the following, we write Selenium Java program to visit https://www.google.com/, then open a new tab, switch to the new tab, and get the URL https://www.tutorialkart.com/.

Java Program

import java.util.ArrayList;

import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class MyAppTest {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/usr/local/bin/chromedriver");  
		WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
		driver.get("https://www.google.com/");
		((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.open()");
		ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String>(driver.getWindowHandles());
		driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(tabs.size()-1));
		driver.get("https://www.tutorialkart.com/");
		driver.quit();
	}
}

Screenshots

1. Initialize web driver and visit https://www.google.com/.

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://www.google.com/");

2. Open a new tab and switch to the new tab or last tab.

((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.open()");
ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String>(driver.getWindowHandles());
driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(tabs.size()-1));

3. Get the URL https://www.tutorialkart.com/ in the new tab.

driver.get("https://www.tutorialkart.com/");