Can we transfer the control from one tab to another tab using the selenium ide?

Question

Can we transfer the control from one tab to another tab using the selenium ide

Answer 1

selectWindow is what you want. Browser Tabs are really just windows, if that's what you mean by tabs.

selectWindow(windowID) Arguments:

windowID - the JavaScript window ID of the window to select

Selects a popup window using a window locator; once a popup window has been selected, all commands go to that window. To select the main window again, use null as the target.

Window locators provide different ways of specifying the window object: by title, by internal JavaScript "name," or by JavaScript variable.

title=My Special Window: Finds the window using the text that appears in the title bar. Be careful; two windows can share the same title. If that happens, this locator will just pick one.

name=myWindow: Finds the window using its internal JavaScript "name" property. This is the second parameter "windowName" passed to the JavaScript method window.open(url, windowName, windowFeatures, replaceFlag) (which Selenium intercepts).

var=variableName: Some pop-up windows are unnamed (anonymous), but are associated with a JavaScript variable name in the current application window, e.g. "window.foo = window.open(url);". In those cases, you can open the window using "var=foo".

Or do you mean tabs within the web page?