open a new tab in selenium python code example

Example 1: selenium python activate new tab

# Open a new window
browser.execute_script("window.open('');")# Switch to the new window and open URL B
browser.switch_to.window(browser.window_handles[1])
browser.get(tab_url)

Example 2: python selenium create new tab

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.google.com/")

#open tab
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.COMMAND + 't') 
# You can use (Keys.CONTROL + 't') on other OSs

# Load a page 
driver.get('http://stackoverflow.com/')
# Make the tests...

# close the tab
# (Keys.CONTROL + 'w') on other OSs.
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.COMMAND + 'w') 


driver.close()