How can I close a specific window using Selenium WebDriver with Java?

Question

I use Selenium WebDriver. I open the first page then open the second page - perform some action and go back to first page. Before I want to close the second page I use the command driver.close();, but it closes the first page instead of the second. How can I make Selenium to close a specific window?

Part of code

String HandleBefore = driver.getWindowHandle();

 driver.findElement(By.xpath("...")).click();
 for (String twohandle : driver.getWindowHandles()) {
        driver.switchTo().window(twohandle);
    }       
 driver.findElement(By.linkText("001")).click();
 driver.close();

Corrade

does the click happen in the right (second) window? – Stench

The code is not very readable. You don't use the stored handleBefore, then you switchTo() to all windows in a loop. I guess that the last switchTo gets you to the first window instead of the second. I recommend you to start over, read the docs once again and read the javadocs of switchTo(). – Disenfranchise

You have to take the window handles to switch between parent and child window. – Crossexamine

Answer 1

    String base = driver.getWindowHandle();

    Set <String> set = driver.getWindowHandles();

    set.remove(base);
    assert set.size()==1;

    driver.switchTo().window(set.toArray(new String[0]));

    driver.close();
    driver.switchTo().window(base);

This works for me...

Stench

My code works, just something wrong with sequense of closing window – Corrade

@Khris A Set is of java.util package. – Disenfranchise

Franz, I am using intellij and 'driver.switchTo().window(set.toArray(String[0]));' line says 'expression expected' what does that mean? – Bareheaded

just enter the new keyword for the Array declaration, edited my answer accordingly, sry – Stench

Answer 2

In Python

default_handle = driver.current_window_handle
handles = list(driver.window_handles)
assert len(handles) > 1

handles.remove(default_handle)
assert len(handles) > 0

driver.switch_to_window(handles[0])
# do your stuffs
driver.close()
driver.switch_to_window(default_handle)

Matelda

Answer 3

You can close a specific window by it's title or identifying a specific unique element of that window..

private void SwitchTabandClose()
{
    Set <String> windows = driver.getWindowHandles();
    String mainwindow = driver.getWindowHandle();

    for (String handle: windows)
    {
        driver.switchTo().window(handle);
        System.out.println("switched to "+driver.getTitle()+"  Window");
        String pagetitle = driver.getTitle();
        if(pagetitle.equalsIgnoreCase("XYZ Title"))
        {
            driver.close();
            System.out.println("Closed the  '"+pagetitle+"' Tab now ...");
        }
    }

    driver.switchTo().window(mainwindow);
 }

Reside

Answer 4

Ramnarayan's solution works great. Modified it a bit for reusablity:

public static String switchToWindowByTitle(WebDriver driver, String windowTitle) {
  Set<String> handles = driver.getWindowHandles();
  String currentHandle = driver.getWindowHandle();
  for (String handle : handles) {
    driver.switchTo().window(handle);
    if (windowTitle.equalsIgnoreCase(driver.getTitle())) {
      break;
    }
  }

  return currentHandle;
}


// How to use method
String currentHandle = SeleniumUtil.switchToWindowByTitle(driver, WINDOW_TITLE);
driver.close(); // Close WINDOW_TITLE page or do other things
driver.switchTo().window(currentHandle); // Return to current page

Granulite

Answer 5

Following a little the work of the other post, I have done it like this.

     public static void changeFocusToWindowByTitle(WebDriver driver, String windowTitle) {
        Set<String> handles = driver.getWindowHandles();
        for (String windowHandle : handles) {
            driver.switchTo().window(windowHandle);
            if (windowTitle.equalsIgnoreCase(driver.getTitle())) {
                logger.debug("Focus has been changed to the window: " + driver.getTitle());
                break;
            }
        }
    }

 public static void closeWindow(WebDriver driver, String windowTitle) {
        Set<String> handles = driver.getWindowHandles(); ;
        for (String handle: handles ) {
            driver.switchTo().window(handle);
            if (driver.getTitle().equalsIgnoreCase(windowTitle)) {
                logger.debug("Close window: " + windowTitle);
                driver.close();
                break;
            }
        }
    }

Disreputable