SELENIUM Navigation Commands Forward, Backward, Refresh.

Navigation Commands in Selenium :

Using Selenium Navigation Commands able open a web page URL, navigate to other web page by clicking any element, Back, Forward or Refresh the web page using browser’s history.

Using the navigating interface is able to move back and forward in browser history.

Navigate To Command:

“navigate().to()” : This command is like the get() command.

It opens a new browser window and it will receive / find the page you provided.

Able to redirect from the current web page to the expected web page.

// Using navigate to command navigate to another url

driver.navigate().to("https://stqatools.com/");

// Using navigate to command navigate to another url

driver.navigate().to("https://stqatools.com/");

Forward Command:

“navigate().forward()” : A page leads you to the history of the browser.

Navigate (). Move forward page using the Forward () command.

// Using Forward command navigate to forward page

driver.navigate().forward();

// Using Forward command navigate to forward page

driver.navigate().forward();

Back Command:

“navigate().back()” : This command is used to return to a page in the browser’s history.

Navigate (). Use the back () command to go to the backward page.

// Using Back command navigate to back page

driver.navigate().back();

// Using Back command navigate to back page

driver.navigate().back();

Refresh Command:

“navigate().refresh()” : This command is used to refresh the current page.

Refresh the current page if there is a change in the web page at times.

// Using Refresh command Refresh current page

driver.navigate().refresh();

// Using Refresh command Refresh current page

driver.navigate().refresh();

Navigation Commands in Selenium Steps :

Set geckodriver path to launch browser.

Create a instance of FirefoxDriver() to handle Navigation commands.

Navigate to URL.

Wait until Page Load.

Navigate to another URL.

Navigate to back page.

Navigate to forward page.

Refresh current page.

Example of Navigation Commands:

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Point;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class Navigation_Commands {

     public static void main(String[] args)throws InterruptedException{                      

     // Set geckodriver path
     System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","D:\\geckodriver.exe");

     // Instantiating objects and variables
     WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

     // Wait For Page To Load
     driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

     // Using navigate to command navigate to another url
     driver.navigate().to("https://stqatools.com/");                       

     // Using Back command navigate to back page
     driver.navigate().back();                       

     // Using Forward command navigate to forward page
     driver.navigate().forward();                                                                       

     // Using Refresh command Refresh current page
     driver.navigate().refresh();
    }
}

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.Point;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class Navigation_Commands {

public static void main(String[] args)throws InterruptedException{

// Set geckodriver path

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","D:\\geckodriver.exe");

// Instantiating objects and variables

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

// Wait For Page To Load

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);