Question

How can I refresh a browser window in different ways using Selenium Webdriver?

Answer 1

Hello Piyush, you can refresh a browser window using Selenium Webdriver with following ways:

1. Refresh command: Most commonly used and simple command for refreshing a webpage. For eg.

   • driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");
     driver.navigate().refresh();

2. SendKeys command: Second most commonly used command is SendKeys. As it is using a send keys method, we must use this on any Text box on a webpage. For eg.

   • driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");
     driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys(Keys.F5);

3. Get command: This one uses another command as an argument to it. It simply feeds get command with a page url. For eg.

   • driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");
     driver.get(driver.getCurrentUrl());

4. To command: This command is again using the same above concept. navigate( ).to( ) is feeding with a page url and an argument. For eg.

   • driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");
     driver.navigate().to(driver.getCurrentUrl());​

5. SendKeys command: This is same SendKeys command but instead of using Key, it is using ASCII code.

   • driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");
     driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys("\uE035");