How to switch to active tab in Selenium

Question

I'm building an app that use selenium for some automation task, but the issue is that the site I am inspecting, after selenium clicks on a link, the link is open in a new tab, not in the sameone.

So when I try to access to the elements in the new tab, It's like selenium is still accesing to the previous page event the new tab is the active one in the browser.

You need to handle windows and switch to next tab. – Justin Lambert Jul 17 '20 at 14:14 — Justin Lambert, Jul 17 '20 at 14:14

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '20 at 14:12

Use WebDriver's getWindowHandles() command to switch between the windows.

String currentWindow = driver.getWindowHandle();

for(String newWindows : driver.getWindowHandles()){
    driver.switchTo().window(newWindows);
}

// perform some action in new window and close it
driver.close();

// switch to default window or current window
driver.switchTo().window(currentWindow);
// OR
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();

How to switch to active tab in Selenium

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