Selenium switch to popup window

Question

When clicking a radio button, a new popup window opens and Selenium is unable to locate any elements from the new popup window. How do I switch Selenium to the new popup window, or extract the URL of the popup window?

print(driver.current_url)

retrieves the URL of the old tab and not the popup window.

print(driver.title)

prints the title of the old tab and not the popup window.

Thanks in advance.

Could you provide some more details and an example? Sounds like you need to switch window handle. — tbjorch
– tbjorch, Commented Mar 10, 2021 at 16:14

tbjorch · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-10 16:23:58Z

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When you open the popup you probably get an additional window handle and need to change window handle to interact with the popup. This can be checked in the drivers window_handles attribute, and switched to by using the drivers switch_to_window method.

# before clicking button to open popup, store the current window handle
main_window = driver.current_window_handle

# click whatever button it is to open popup

# after opening popup, change window handle
for handle in driver.window_handles: 
    if handle != main_window: 
        popup = handle
        driver.switch_to_window(popup)

print(driver.title) # Should now be the popup window

answered Mar 10, 2021 at 16:23

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2 Comments

user901 Over a year ago

I was able to fix this issue with the code below, thanks. driver.switch_to.window(driver.window_handles[2])

Sushen Biswas Over a year ago

This answer is very helpful.

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