Browser Navigation

One of the most basic things you can do using Selenium is to navigate to a given link, traverse back and then again go back to the same page again.

It also gives you specific methods to refresh or re-load a page, when working.

Let us see the methods which help us in navigating to a specific URL and help perform basic browser functions.

import unittest
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions

class toolsqa(unittest.TestCase):

      def setUp(self):
          self.driver=webdriver.Firefox()

      def test_filldetails(self):
          driver=self.driver
          driver.maximize_window()
          driver.get('http://www.toolsqa.com')

          driver.implicitly_wait(30)

          tt1=driver.find_element_by_link_text('ABOUT')
          tt1.click()

           WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(expected_conditions.title_contains('About '))

          driver.back()

          driver.forward()

         WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(expected_conditions.title_contains('About '))

          driver.back()

          driver.refresh()

      def tearDown(self):
          self.driver.quit()

if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()

 

The back( ) method gives you the ability to go back to the previous URL. refresh ( ) method is used to refresh a web page again- it’s just like using the F5 key from keyboard.

forward( ) method gives you the ability to go forward to the webpage, from which you came back.