webdriver.switchTo().window() doesnt work here

Old Keksi

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Mar 23, 2022, 9:46:32 AM3/23/22

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Hello all

I'm running some experiments with Selenium 4 using Java on a Mac. I found out that the switchTo().window() statement doesn't work as described. Here's the code:

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.Collection;

public class SwitchDoesntWork
{
public static void main(String... args)
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "./lib/chromedriver 99");
ChromeDriver webDriver = new ChromeDriver();

try
{
webDriver
.navigate()
.to("file:///(...)/src/test/resources/switchDoesntWorkMain.html");

webDriver
.navigate()
.to("file://(...)/src/test/resources/switchDoesntWorkSub1.html");
// webDriver.findElement(By.id("link1")).click(); // This doesn't work either

String mainWindowHandle = webDriver.getWindowHandle();
Collection<String> allWindowHandles = webDriver.getWindowHandles();
System.out.println("Main Handle: " + mainWindowHandle);
System.out.println("All Handles: " + allWindowHandles); // Contains the main handle only
System.out.println("All size: " + allWindowHandles.size()); // This returns 1 - there is no 2nd handle

for (String handle: allWindowHandles)
{
if (!handle.equals(mainWindowHandle))
{
System.out.println("Switching to handle: " + handle);
webDriver.switchTo().window(handle); // He never gets here
}
}
}
finally
{
webDriver.quit();
}
}
}

The two html pages referenced are very simple:

switchDoesntWorkMain.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/html">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"/>
<title>Switch Doesn't work - MAIN</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Main Page</h1>
<p>
<div>
<a id="link1" href="switchDoesntWorkSub1.html">Subpage</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>

switchDoesntWorkSub1.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"/>
<title>Switch Doesn't work - SUB1</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Subpage</h1>
<p>
<div>
<a id="linkBack" href="switchDoesntWorkMain.html">Back</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>

In ./lib/ is the current chromedriver as downloaded from <chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=99.0.4844.51/>

What's wrong with my code?

Old Keksi

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Mar 23, 2022, 10:50:01 AM3/23/22

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Actually the subject is wrong. The webdriver.switchTo().window() statement is not the problem. The problem is that the webDriver.getWindowHandles() statement doesn't return the handle of the newly opened window so that I can't switch to it.

Veena

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Mar 28, 2022, 12:59:09 AM3/28/22

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both webdriver.navigate opens a given html file in the same window, So getWindowHanles returns a single window.You must open a new window or tab before launch new URL

use webdriver.switchTo().newWindow(WindowType.TAB); between your two webdriver.navigate, so the second URL gets open in a new tab, and if you want to access your first webpage then you have to use

driver.switchTo().defaultContent();

Cheers

Veena

Old Keksi

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Mar 28, 2022, 10:52:48 AM3/28/22

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That's it: a new window tab.

many great thanx to you, Veena!

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