Prerequisites: Selenium Basics, Selenium close() and quit()
Selenium is a powerful tool for controlling web browsers through programs and performing browser automation. It is functional for all browsers, works on all major OS and its scripts are written in various languages i.e Python, Java, C#, etc, we will be working with Python.
The close() method is a web driver command which closes the browser window. During the automation process, if there are multiple browser windows opened, then the close() command will close the current browser window that is having attention at that time.
Requirements:
You need to install chromedriver and set path. Click here to download.for more information follows this link.
Step-by-step Approach:
- Import required modules
Python3
# import modules from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select import time |
- Taking any URL.
Python3
# assign web page url |
- We want the child window of this web page then click on any button.
- Copy XPath.
- Use the find_element_by_xpath() method to find XPath.
Python3
# find XPath driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="Tabbed"]/a/button').click() |
- Create a handles variable who store all handles value of the open browser window.
- Then the specified condition of the closing web page.
Python3
# return all handles value of open browser window handles = driver.window_handles for i in handles: driver.switch_to.window(i) # close specified web page if driver.title == "Frames & windows": time.sleep(2) driver.close() |
The close() method closes current window page. Some pages are used for a long time some pages used for short time. If we want to close a specific web page, we need to use some condition.
Implementation:
Python3
# import modules from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select import time # use chrome driver driver = webdriver.Chrome() # assign web page url # find XPath driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="Tabbed"]/a/button').click() # return all handles value of open browser window handles = driver.window_handles for i in handles: driver.switch_to.window(i) # close specified web page if driver.title == "Frames & windows": time.sleep(2) driver.close() |
Output:
