driver.title not working in selenium webdriver with python

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There is button which on clicking navigates to facebook login page and I want to confirm it navigates properly using selenium. However on button click the facebook login opens in a new tab but the driver.title returns the title of previous tab (where the button is present).

def test_01_facebook(self):
        self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//i[@class='fa fa-facebook-square']").click()
        title = self.driver.title
        self.assertTrue("Facebook" == self.driver.title) 
        print (title)

Alternatively I could compare the url using driver.current_url but the issue is the new tab url has a lengthy string after https://www.facebook.com/login.php?.

Please explain how this question relates to the tag "coded-ui-tests" or if it does not then please remove the tag. — AdrianHHH
– AdrianHHH, Commented Nov 19, 2018 at 9:13
I believe coded-ui-tests tag is used for automated tests that drive applications through its user interface for functional testing of the UI controls. The above code is an automated script to to test the functionality of button, so I think it relates. Please do correct me if i'm wrong. @AdrianHHH — Atul
– Atul, Commented Nov 19, 2018 at 9:22
Coded UI Tests are a specific type of test supported by and implemented with Visual Studio. It is not a generic style of UI testing. Hover the mouse over the tag in the question or view this page: stackoverflow.com/tags/coded-ui-tests/info — AdrianHHH
– AdrianHHH, Commented Nov 19, 2018 at 9:26
I'm new to this UI testing and I mistook coded-ui-tests for automated ui testing turns out it is a different tool like selenium used for UI testing. Thanks @AdrianHHH for the correction. — Atul
– Atul, Commented Nov 19, 2018 at 9:57
@Atul Consider evaluating all the answer's you receive against your question and provide a feedback to the answer contributors. It takes some serious efforts to construct canonical answers. — undetected Selenium
– undetected Selenium, Commented Nov 19, 2018 at 10:23

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-19 08:24:19Z

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If LogIn page opens in new tab, you should wait for new tab and switch to it to check title:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait as wait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

def test_01_facebook(self):
    self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//i[@class='fa fa-facebook-square']").click()
    current = self.driver.current_window_handle
    wait(self.driver, 10).until(EC.new_window_is_opened(self.driver.window_handles))
    self.driver.switch_to.window([w for w in self.driver.window_handles if w != current][0])
    title = self.driver.title
    self.assertTrue("Facebook" == self.driver.title) 
    print (title)

You might also switch back to main window using

self.driver.switch_to.window(current)

answered Nov 19, 2018 at 8:24

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Atul · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-19 16:36:00Z

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Since the facebook is opened in a new tab, so you need switch to the new tab first, please try below code:

 self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//i[@class='fa fa-facebook-square']").click()
 windowHandle = self.driver.window_handles
 for windowId in self.driver.window_handles:
      if not windowId==windowHandle
          self.driver.switch_to.window(windowId);

 title = self.driver.title
 self.assertTrue("Facebook" == self.driver.title) 
 print (title)

edited Nov 19, 2018 at 16:36

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answered Nov 19, 2018 at 8:25

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Atul Over a year ago

Yep that was the issue. self.driver.find_element_by_tag_name("body").send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + Keys.TAB) was not working for me. But I found this one to be working self.driver.switch_to_window(self.driver.window_handles[-1])

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-19 09:19:01Z

To extract the Page Title from the newly opened TAB i.e. Facebook – log in or sign up you need to:

Switch the focus to the newly opened TAB inducing WebDriverWait
You need to induce WebDriverWait again for the Page Title to render.

You can use the following solution:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

def test_01_facebook(self):
    windows_before  = driver.current_window_handle
    self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("//i[@class='fa fa-facebook-square']").click()
    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.number_of_windows_to_be(2))
    windows_after = driver.window_handles
    new_window = [x for x in windows_after if x != windows_before][0]
    driver.switch_to_window(new_window)
    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.title_contains("log in"))
    self.assert "Python" in driver.title
    print (title)

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