Navigating Between Pages Using Selenium WebDriver

✅ What You’ll Need:

Python installed on your system

Selenium package installed (pip install selenium)

WebDriver for your browser (e.g., ChromeDriver for Chrome)

🔁 Basic Page Navigation with Selenium

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from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

import time

# Set up the WebDriver (e.g., Chrome)

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

# 1. Open the first page

driver.get("https://www.example.com")

print("Title of first page:", driver.title)

# 2. Click a link to go to another page (assuming there's a clickable element)

try:

    link = driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "More information...")

    link.click()

    time.sleep(2)  # wait for page to load

    print("Title after navigating:", driver.title)

except Exception as e:

    print("Error clicking link:", e)

# 3. Go back to the previous page

driver.back()

time.sleep(2)

print("Title after going back:", driver.title)

# 4. Go forward to the next page

driver.forward()

time.sleep(2)

print("Title after going forward:", driver.title)

# 5. Refresh the current page

driver.refresh()

print("Page refreshed")

# Close the browser

driver.quit()

🔍 Key Selenium Navigation Methods:

Method Description

driver.get(url) Opens the given URL

driver.back() Navigates back in browser history

driver.forward() Navigates forward in browser history

driver.refresh() Refreshes the current page

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