How to use Control+Click Selenium Webdriver to open a link embedded in a web element, the link is in the main tab, in a new tab in the same window

Since a link is embedded in the web element of the " parent tab ", to open the link in a " new tab" in the same window using Selenium and Python , you can use the following solution:

In order to demonstrate the URL's workflow https://www.google.com/open the parent tab , then open in new tabfunctionalty by implementing the ActionChainsmethod key_down(), click()as well as the key_up()method.

• Code block:

  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
  from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
  import time
  
  options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
  options.add_argument("start-maximized")
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
  driver.get("https://www.google.com/")
  link = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Gmail")))
  ActionChains(driver).key_down(Keys.CONTROL).click(link).key_up(Keys.CONTROL).perform()
  

• Note : You will need to replace with (By.LINK_TEXT, "Gmail")the desired locator, e.g.("div[data-res-position = '1']")

• Browser snapshot:

You can find a related Java - based solution in " Open New Tab" using the Ctrl+click key combination in Selenium Webdriver .

Updates

To shift the focus of Selenium to the newly opened tab, you can find a detailed discussion in the new tab Selenium + Python of "Opening the Web" .