Press Browser’s Back Button – Selenium Java

Press Browser’s Back Button

To simulate pressing browser’s back button programmatically using Selenium in Java, call navigate().back() on the web driver object.

WebDriver.navigate().back() method simulates a move back a single “item” in the browser’s history.

The following is a quick Java code snippet to press browser’s back button using Selenium.

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
//some code
driver.navigate().back();

Example

In the following, we write Java code to initialize a web driver, visit google.com, search for the query 'tutorialkart', and press the browser’s back button.

Java Program

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;

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://google.com/ncr");

        WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
        searchBox.sendKeys("tutorialkart");
        searchBox.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);
        
        driver.navigate().back();
        
        driver.quit();
    }
}

Screenshots

1. Initialize Web Driver and navigate to google.com.

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

2. Enter serach query: ‘tutorialkart’

WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
searchBox.sendKeys("tutorialkart");

3. Press Enter

searchBox.sendKeys(Keys.RETURN);

4. Navigate Back

driver.navigate().back();