How to open a link in new tab of chrome browser using Selenium WebDriver

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System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\softwares\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.get("https://mail.google.com/");
String selectLinkOpeninNewTab = Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,Keys.RETURN); 
driver.findElement(By.linkText("www.facebook.com")).sendKeys(selectLinkOpeninNewTab);
Aug 9, 2018 in Selenium by Perry
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i have write same code but url not open
Have you tried Abha's solution?

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Below code worked fine for me:

    driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.manage().window().maximize();

    baseUrl = "http://www.google.co.uk/";
    driver.get(baseUrl);
    driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL +"t");

    ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String> (driver.getWindowHandles());
    driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(1)); //switches to new tab
    driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");

    driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(0)); // switch back to main screen        
    driver.get("https://www.news.google.com");

For further understanding, you can refer to the Selenium Certification.

answered Aug 9, 2018 by Meci Matt
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This code is not working for me

Hey Sonal, try this piece of code to open a link in a new tab:

driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.get("https://www.google.com/");
String a = "window.open(link,'_blank');";  // replace link with your desired link
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript(a);

Hope this would help you. Let me know if it works.

working....thanks
But if we want to execute code on main tab first and then secodary tab then how to do this?
driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(0)); // switch to main screen

//execute your code.

driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(1)); //switches to new tab

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driver.execute_script('''window.open("http://google.com","_blank");''')
answered Nov 27, 2018 by Ganesh
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First open a new tab:

driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.COMMAND + 't') 

Then open the url using get:

driver.get('www.facebook.com')
answered Nov 27, 2018 by Mahesh
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ActionChains(driver).key_down(Keys.CONTROL).send_keys('t').key_up(Keys.CONTROL).perform()
answered Nov 27, 2018 by kartik
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You can open a new tab first. And then change the focus to the newly created tab

driver.execute_script("window.open('');")
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1])
driver.get("www.facebook.com")
answered Nov 27, 2018 by Shrikanth
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driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(1)); or javascrpirt 
or 
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL +"t");





answered Sep 3, 2020 by Sri
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Try this once

driver.findElement(By.id("id")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL+"t");
answered Sep 6, 2020 by Sri
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This below code works for me in Selenium 3 and chrome version 58.

    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.get("http://yahoo.com");  
    ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.open()");
    ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String>(driver.getWindowHandles());
    driver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(1));
    driver.get("http://google.com");
answered Dec 14, 2020 by Gitika
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