Is it possible to close a specific tab in Selenium by index wihout switching to it?

Currently I am doing this:

driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[1])
driver.close()
driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[0])

I found that switching tabs makes my script very unstable, so I would prefer to avoid it if possible.

CodePudding user response：

WebDriver can close a window/tab instance if it has the focus on that particular tab or windows.

So you can not close a tab or windows if you are focusing on a different tab or windows.

If you are facing unstable script execution while switching tabs/windows I'd say have time.sleep(2) or time.sleep(3) that should help you resolve or get rid off un-stable.

Also remember, driver.quit would close all the instances.

CodePudding user response：

Actually it is possible if using chromedriver but it requires to use Chrome Developer Tools Protocol (which is supported in Selenium 4).

More specifically you have to:

1. Get list of targets using Target.getTargets method.
2. Extract the targetId of the page (target) you want to close.
3. Close the page (target) using Target.closeTarget method passing the targetId.