How to use close() and quit() method in Selenium Python ?
While doing stuff with selenium multiple browsers with multiple tabs will normally opens in order to close these tabs close() and quit() methods are used. close() method is used to close the current browser window on which the focus is set, on the other hand quit() method essentially calls the driver.dispose method that successively closes all the browser windows and ends the WebDriver session graciously.
Syntax :
driver.close() driver.quit()
Argument :
Both methods takes no argument
Action performed :
close() method closes the current window.
quit() method quits the driver instance, closing every associated window, which is opened.
Code for close method() :
# importing webdriver from seleniumfrom selenium import webdriver # Here Chrome will be useddriver = webdriver.Chrome() # URL of website # Opening the websitedriver.get(url) # Closes the current windowdriver.close() |
Output : The webpage will loaded then closes due to close() method.
Code for quit() method:
# importing webdriver from seleniumfrom selenium import webdriver # Here Chrome will be useddriver = webdriver.Chrome() # URL of website # Opening the websitedriver.get(url) # All windows related to driver instance will quitdriver.quit() |
Output : The webpage will be loaded then window get quit due to quit() method.
Last Updated on March 17, 2022 by admin