How to verify whether new tab opened or not in selenium webdriver?

Question

I have a situation where I have to check whether after clicking on a link a new tab is opened or not. If the tab opens I want to check the title as well.

Does anyone have any idea about this.

Answer 1

Here is the same for C#; this is tested and will work whether the link opens in new tab or new window.

var browserTabs = driver.WindowHandles;            
driver.SwitchTo().Window(browserTabs[1]);

//check is it correct page opened or not (e.g. check page's title or url, etc.)
// ...
//close tab and get back
driver.Close();
driver.SwitchTo().Window(browserTabs[0]);

Hope this helps anyone who comes across this thread.

Answer 2

You can use below method to implement the desired wait until the tab is fully loaded.

  public static void switchTabs(WebDriver driver, int expectedWindowsCount,int SwitchtoWindow) throws Exception {
    (new WebDriverWait(driver, 30)).until(ExpectedConditions.numberOfWindowsToBe(expectedWindowsCount));
    ArrayList<String> tabs2 = new ArrayList<String>(driver.getWindowHandles());
    driver.switchTo().window(tabs2.get(SwitchtoWindow));
}

The method will check how many Active window handlers are available and wait until desired handlers are present and switch to the tab afterwards.