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newWindow

Open new window in browser. This command is the equivalent function to window.open(). This command does not work in mobile environments.

Note: When calling this command you automatically switch to the new window.

Usage

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client.newWindow(url,windowName,windowFeatures).then(callback);

Parameters

Param Type Details
url String website URL to open
windowName String name of the new window
windowFeatures String features of opened window (e.g. size, position, scrollbars, etc.)

Example

newWindow.js
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client
    .url('http://google.com')
    .getTitle().then(function(title) {
        console.log(title); // outputs: "Google"
    })
    .newWindow('http://webdriver.io', 'WebdriverIO window', 'width=420,height=230,resizable,scrollbars=yes,status=1')
    .getTitle().then(function(title) {
        console.log(title);
        // outputs the following:
        // "WebdriverIO - Selenium 2.0 javascript bindings for nodejs"
    })
    .close()
    .getTitle().then(function(title) {
        console.log(title); // outputs: "Google"
    })
    .end();

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