Open new tab in chrome from selenium web-driver doesn't work

Question

Code language c# Selenium Webdriver

I'm trying to open in chrome a new tab with the following code:

        Actions action = new Actions(BrowserFactory.Driver);
        action.SendKeys(Keys.Control + "T").Build().Perform();
        string secondTabHandle = BrowserFactory.Driver.CurrentWindowHandle;

I found this code on stackoverflow.

I also tried:

        IWebElement body = 
        BrowserFactory.Driver.FindElement(By.TagName("body"));
        body.SendKeys(Keys.Control+'t');
        body.SendKeys(Keys.Control+"t");

Thats also not working

Nothing happens after using this code.

Can someone help me what I am doing wrong.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The better solution is not dependent press CTRL+T or whatever, because on different browser or different version on same brower, the CTRL+T may lead to different behaviour.

I prefer the solution to execute javascript on browser to open a new tab, becasuse inject and execute javascript on browser supported natively by selenium.

We should make the javascript do following things on browser:

1. create a link node, and set the link href is 'about:blank' or the url you want to open, set the link target is '_blank'

2. append the link node to body of current opening page

3. click the link and remove the link from body

code example:

string newTabScript = "var d=document,a=d.createElement('a');"
+ "a.target='_blank';a.href='{0}';"
+ "a.innerHTML='new tab';"
+ "d.body.appendChild(a);"
+ "a.click();"
+ "a.parentNode.removeChild(a);"

public void newTab(string tabUrl) 
{
  if(String.IsNullOrEmpty(tabUrl) {
    tabUrl = "about:blank";
  } 
  IWebDriver driver; // assume assigned elsewhere
  IJavaScriptExecutor js = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;
  js.ExecuteScript(String.format(newTabScript, tabUrl));
}