Python Selenium Web Driver Navigation Command

This is our third article in Python Selenium, in this article we are going to learn about Selenium Web Driver Navigation Command in Python. so using Selenium Navigation Command we are able to open a web page URL, navigate to other web page by clicking any element, Back, Forward and Refresh web page using browser’s history. also you can read the previous articles about Python Selenium in the below links.

Python Selenium Articles

1: Python Selenium Introduction & Installation

2: Python Selenium Web Elements Introduction

So now this is the complete code for Python Selenium Web Driver Navigation Command

from selenium import webdriver
import time


#open chrome
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

#open url
driver.get("https://www.google.com")

#find element
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name("q")

#send keys
search_box.send_keys("Python")

time.sleep(5)

#submit the button
search_box.submit()


#navigate back
driver.back()
print(driver.title)
time.sleep(3)


#navigate forward
driver.forward()

driver.refresh()

from selenium import webdriver

import time

#open chrome

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

#open url

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

#find element

search_box = driver.find_element_by_name("q")

#send keys

search_box.send_keys("Python")

time.sleep(5)

#submit the button

search_box.submit()

#navigate back

driver.back()

print(driver.title)

time.sleep(3)

#navigate forward

driver.forward()

driver.refresh()

In this code we have opened a browser, basically we are using Chrome browser, but you can use another browsers also. we have already talked that how you can add Python Selenium Web Drivers for Chrome And FireFox browsers Python Selenium Introduction & Installation .

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

1	driver = webdriver.Chrome()

So now we are going to open Google search page using this code

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

1	driver.get("https://www.google.com")

In here we are going to find the search text input name, because we want to interact with google search text field, basically after opening of the google website, we want to write Python keyword and search that keyword. you can read the article about web elements in python selenium Python Selenium Web Elements Introduction.

search_box = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
search_box.send_keys("Python")
time.sleep(5)
search_box.submit()

search_box = driver.find_element_by_name("q")

search_box.send_keys("Python")

time.sleep(5)

search_box.submit()

You can use this code for navigating back, forward and refreshing.

driver.back()
driver.forward()
driver.refresh()

driver.back()

driver.forward()

driver.refresh()

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