How to command click (open in new tab) in selenium

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I have an array of selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElements. In order to loop through theses elements and keep the session, I need to open each element in a new tab, extract the data, then close the tab. I see THAT there is a way to open a new tab, but it requires a url: How to open a new tab using Selenium WebDriver in Java? . Is there any way to command click these elements?

SOURCE: https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/py/webdriver_remote/selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.html

    def click(self) -> None:
        """Clicks the element."""
        self._execute(Command.CLICK_ELEMENT)

Prophet · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-02 21:10:22Z

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To open a new tab with selenium you can send CONTROL + T keys in Windows OS.
Tab can be closed with CONTROL + W keys on Windows OS.
Like this:

#open tab
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 't')

For OSX COMMAND + T and COMMAND + W can be used accordingly.

answered Aug 2, 2021 at 21:10

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joey Over a year ago

This is the correct answer... as a sidenote sometimes dataframes prevent you from opening a new tab

khansa amrouni · Accepted Answer · 2023-09-14 15:51:09Z

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if you are using Selenium 4 and later versions. try this code

driver.switch_to.new_window('tab')
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
driver.get(linkURL)

answered Sep 14, 2023 at 15:51

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