Open link in New tab using Selenium C# for chrome

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Hello,
I am writing a program to run videos listed on my site for testing purpose and here what I need is to run videos in different tabs of the same browser window.

I have hundred video urls in the List<string> videoLinks = getVideoUrls();
and now what I need is to execute these videos 5 at a time.

C#

ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.withoutabox.com" + videoLink);

If I go the above way then for all videos I will have to create a new ChromeDriver object. I want to use single chrome browser object.

I have tried this

C#

IWebElement body = driver.FindElement(By.TagName("body"));
               body.SendKeys(Keys.Control + "t");

it only adds a new tab but not open a link there.
Please let me know how should I go around it. I have googled but couldn't find my solution so thought to ask for help from you geeks.

I would appreciate your response.
Thanks

Posted 5-Dec-15 11:01am

Sohaib Javed

Updated 5-May-21 11:24am

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Solution 3

I would add that this piece of code:

Actions action = new Actions(_driver);
action.KeyDown(Keys.Control).MoveToElement(body).Click().Perform();

will not release CTRL key in the keyboard what can cause openning new tab in same window if this piece of code is running in a loop.

So right version is:

Actions action = new Actions(_driver);
action.KeyDown(Keys.Control).MoveToElement(body).Click().KeyUp(Keys.Control).Perform();

Posted 7-Jan-18 14:08pm

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Solution 4

var driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("Body")).SendKeys(Keys.Control + "t");
driver.SwitchTo().Window(driver.WindowHandles.Last());
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.google.com");

Posted 5-Sep-19 16:46pm

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Member 11314932 · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-25T02:50:00

Solution 1

Actions action = new Actions(_driver);
action.KeyDown(Keys.Control).MoveToElement(body).Click().Perform();

This will open IwebElement body in new tab.

Posted 25-Feb-16 2:50am

Member 11314932