Toggling between tabs

Let's deal with toggling between tabs .Here there will be only one window handle for any number of tabs that get opened in that session, unlike the multiple window handles that are present when number of windows are opened.

Here's the sample program,

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class SwitchTabsDemo {

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

// This page will be tab1 in this scenario

driver.navigate()

.to("http://www.toolsqa.com/automation-practice-form/");

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

driver.manage().window().maximize();

// Finding username webelement in tab1

WebElement we = driver.findElement(By.name("firstname"));

// Both tabs will have the same window handle in this case

String han = driver.getWindowHandle();

// To open a new tab

we.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "t"));

// Launch another url in the new tab, tab2

driver.navigate().to("http://www.google.com");

// Locating the search box

WebElement we2 = driver.findElement(By.id("gbqfq"));

// Sending text to search box element

we2.sendKeys("sachin");

// Shifting control back to tab1

we2.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "\t"));

// Switching to first tab using handle

driver.switchTo().window(han);

// Sending text to user name text box in tab1

we.sendKeys("admin");

Thread.sleep(4000l);

// Shifting control to tab2

we.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "\t"));

// Switching to tab2 using handle

driver.switchTo().window(han);

// Both driver.close() and driver.quit() will just do the same task,

// driver instance gets killed

driver.quit();

}

}

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