Open web browser in a panel in selenium

Question

I am using c# language with selenium in windows form. I have aquestion. My first question is that, is it possible to open web browser it in the selenium panel?

Naimish Makwana · Answer

Yes, it is possible to open a web browser in Selenium, but not directly in a panel of a Windows Form application. Selenium WebDriver is used to automate browser activities. It doesn’t provide functionality to embed a browser inside a panel of a Windows Form application. However, you can open a new browser window or tab using Selenium WebDriver with C#. Here’s an example of how you can do this: IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("body")).SendKeys(Keys.Control + "t"); driver.SwitchTo().Window(driver.WindowHandles.Last()); driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.example.com"); In this code: A new instance of ChromeDriver is created. A new tab is opened using Keys.Control + "t" . The driver switches to the new tab using driver.SwitchTo().Window(driver.WindowHandles.Last()) . The driver navigates to the desired URL1. Please note that Selenium WebDriver does not support attaching to an existing browser instance that it did not start2. So, if you want to control a browser that is already open, you would need to start that browser session from Selenium. If you want to display web content inside your Windows Form application, you might want to look into using the WebBrowser control provided by .NET. This control allows you to display web pages in your Windows Forms application. However, it does not have the same automation capabilities as Selenium WebDriver. Thanks

Mehmet Fatih · Answer

Thans for your information.