[🐛 Bug]: After the user manually switches windows, the current value of the window handle remains unchanged

[Dylan-lijl]

What happened?

I don't know if this issue is a bug or a requirement

After the program runs, open the browser and open the default window. The user can operate the current window to open another window or a new window to access a new website. Then the user enters the start command in the background, and the program needs to retrieve the active window of the current user to query data

a window:

b window:
xxxxxx

The window where the user stays may be either 'a' or 'b', but the value of the current window handle is not the actual window handle where the user stays

How can we reproduce the issue?

The user opens a new window in the browser and accesses a new URL, then stops and calls the "current_cindow_handle" method to obtain the value and compare it with "windows_handles"

Relevant log output

null

Operating System

windows 10

Selenium version

python 3.10

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

latest

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

anything

Are you using Selenium Grid?

4.27.1

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[navin772]

Hi @Dylan-lijl, what I got from your query is that you want Selenium to return the window handle that the user is currently present at, even if that is the cause of a manual interaction with the window handles.
Correct me if this is the wrong interpretation.

In that case, it is not possible, since current_window_handle will return the last window handle controlled by the WebDriver, not the handle of the window the user manually switched to.

You can use switch_to for changing the current window handle, something like this:

all_handles = driver.window_handles
print(f"All Window Handles: {all_handles}")
driver.switch_to.window(all_handles[-1])

[navin772]

Here is a python script that you can use to verify whether the window handle is successfully switched or not:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://example.com")

initial_handle = driver.current_window_handle
print(f"Initial Window Handle: {initial_handle}")

driver.execute_script("window.open('https://www.google.com', '_blank');")

# Get all window handles
all_handles = driver.window_handles
print(f"All Window Handles: {all_handles}")

# switch to the new window
driver.switch_to.window(all_handles[-1])

current_handle = driver.current_window_handle
print(f"Current Window Handle: {current_handle}")

[diemol]

It is exactly what @navin772 says. Selenium WebDriver can only account for automated actions done in the session.

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