Handle Multiple Tabs and Windows in Selenium 4 – Complete Practical Guide

By Bhau Automation • Selenium 4 Window Handling Tutorial

🎯 What You Will Learn in This Video

• How to open new tabs and windows in Selenium 4
• Difference between getWindowHandle and getWindowHandles
• How to switch between multiple browser windows
• Practical examples using Selenium WebDriver
• Handling multiple tabs in automation frameworks

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📌 What is Window Handling in Selenium?

In Selenium WebDriver, sometimes clicking a link opens a new browser tab or window. To interact with that new window, Selenium provides two important methods:

• getWindowHandle()
• getWindowHandles()

🔹 getWindowHandle()

This method returns the unique ID of the current browser window.

String parentWindow = driver.getWindowHandle();
System.out.println(parentWindow);

🔹 getWindowHandles()

This method returns the IDs of all open browser windows as a Set.

Set allWindows = driver.getWindowHandles();

for(String window : allWindows){
    driver.switchTo().window(window);
}

💻 Complete Selenium Example

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import java.util.Set;

public class MultipleWindowsExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://www.bhauautomation.com");

String parent = driver.getWindowHandle();

Set windows = driver.getWindowHandles();

for(String window : windows){

if(!window.equals(parent)){

driver.switchTo().window(window);
System.out.println("Switched to child window");

}

}

driver.quit();

}

}

🔄 Steps to Handle Multiple Windows

• Get parent window ID
• Click link that opens new window
• Use getWindowHandles() to get all windows
• Loop through windows
• Switch using driver.switchTo().window()

🎯 Real-World Use Cases

• Handling payment gateway windows
• Social media login popups
• Multiple tab navigation
• External links opening new browser tabs

❓ Interview Questions

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🎓 Key Takeaways

• Use getWindowHandle() to identify current window
• Use getWindowHandles() to get all windows
• Switch windows using driver.switchTo().window()
• Essential concept for Selenium automation frameworks
• Frequently asked Selenium interview question

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