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How to open Previously copy link in the new tab in selenium C#?

Suppose you copy a link by clicking on the button and you want to open that copied link in a new tab, then how to perform this operation in selenium C#.

driver.FindElement(By.Id("button")).click(); -----from this operation we just copy the link.

Question: Now How to open this copy link in new tab ?

Solution

  • After getting the URL link with code like this:

    var url = driver.FindElement(By.Id("button")).Text;

    You can open a new tab and switch to it with

    ((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("window.open();");
driver.SwitchTo().Window(driver.WindowHandles.Last());

    And then open the previously saved url there with driver with

    driver.Url = url;

    So that the entire code could be something like this:

    var url = driver.FindElement(By.Id("button")).Text;
((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("window.open();");
driver.SwitchTo().Window(driver.WindowHandles.Last());
driver.Url = url;

    In case you are getting the URL by clicking on that element as you mentioned driver.FindElement(By.Id("button")).click(); so that the URL is copied into the clipboard, you can use code like this:

    using System.Windows.Forms;
driver.FindElement(By.Id("button")).click();
string url = Clipboard.GetText()
((IJavaScriptExecutor)_chromeDriver).ExecuteScript("window.open('" + url +"');");