Browser Commands in Selenium

  

Browser commands in Selenium WebDriver allow you to interact with the browser as a whole, such as opening, closing, navigating, and retrieving information. Here are the most common browser commands:

List of Browser Commands:

Command	Description
driver.get("URL")	Opens a website
driver.getCurrentUrl()	Returns the current URL
driver.getTitle()	Returns the title of the page
driver.getPageSource()	Returns the page source
driver.close()	Closes the current browser window
driver.quit()	Closes all browser windows and ends the session
driver.navigate().to("URL")	Navigates to a specific URL
driver.navigate().back()	Goes back to the previous page
driver.navigate().forward()	Goes forward to the next page
driver.navigate().refresh()	Refreshes the current page

Selenium Java code using browser commands

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class BrowserCommandsDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // Set path to chromedriver
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "path/to/chromedriver");

        // Initialize WebDriver
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        // 1. Open a website
        driver.get("https://www.google.com");

        // 2. Get current URL
        String currentUrl = driver.getCurrentUrl();
        System.out.println("Current URL: " + currentUrl);

        // 3. Get page title
        String title = driver.getTitle();
        System.out.println("Page Title: " + title);

        // 4. Navigate to another URL
        driver.navigate().to("https://www.bing.com");

        // 5. Navigate back
        driver.navigate().back();

        // 6. Navigate forward
        driver.navigate().forward();

        // 7. Refresh the page
        driver.navigate().refresh();

        // 8. Get page source
        String pageSource = driver.getPageSource();
        System.out.println("Page Source Length: " + pageSource.length());

        // 9. Close the current window
        driver.close();

        // Optional: Quit the entire browser session
        // driver.quit();
    }
}