Is there a way to close a tab in WebDriver or Protractor?

Question

Is there a way to physically close a tab via Protractor or WebDriver?

I ask because while I know how to switch tabs programmatically, but it does not bring the active tab to the foreground. I can't always tell what is going on in my E2E tests that run on SauceLabs because when I view the screen casts it is showing the tab that I navigated away from, not the active one.

Am I going about this incorrectly?

it('should do something in the previous tab', function(done) {     browser.getAllWindowHandles().then(function (handles) {         browser.switchTo().window(handles[0]);         // do something         expect(something).toEqual(thisThing);         done();     }); }); 

Answer 1

You can try the following:

1. Switch to the new opened tab.
2. Close the current windows (in this case, the new tab).

3. Switch back to the first window.

   browser.getAllWindowHandles().then(function (handles) { browser.driver.switchTo().window(handles[1]); browser.driver.close(); browser.driver.switchTo().window(handles[0]); });