How to close the browser window at the end of a Selenium test program

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to close the browser window at the end of a Selenium test program.

Selenium: Selenium is a Python library through which we can open and close URL links and browse web browsers using python script.

There is 2 method to close the browser window at the end of a Selenium test program.

1.   close()
2.   quit()

close() method in selenium

• It will close the window which is currently opened.

code:

#Installing selenium library
!pip install selenium

output:

Collecting seleniumNote: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.

  Downloading selenium-4.2.0-py3-none-any.whl (983 kB)
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Requirement already satisfied: urllib3[secure,socks]~=1.26 in c:\users\sumit\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from selenium) (1.26.4)
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Collecting h11<1,>=0.9.0
  Downloading h11-0.13.0-py3-none-any.whl (58 kB)
Installing collected packages: outcome, h11, wsproto, trio, trio-websocket, selenium
Successfully installed h11-0.13.0 outcome-1.1.0 selenium-4.2.0 trio-0.20.0 trio-websocket-0.9.2 wsproto-1.1.0

 

Steps:

1. importing the webdriver from the selenium python library to open URL and time to sleep/wait our program for some time.
2. path of chrome driver to pass into webdriver.
3. we use chrome as a webdriver.
4. Set URL.
5. Opening the URL/website using the get() function.
6. Now we want to sleep our program using the sleep() method for 10 sec to properly see our opening website.
7. Now close() method close our current website.

# importing the webdriver from the selenium python library and time
from selenium import webdriver

#path
path='C:\\Users\\sumit\\.wdm\\drivers\\chromedriver\\win32\\102.0.5005.61\\chromedriver.exe'  
# Here we use chrome as a webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(path)
  
# URL
url = "https://www.codespeedy.com/"
  
# Opening the URL/website
driver.get(url)

#sleep/wait our program for 10sec
time.sleep(10)
  
# Closing current window
driver.close()

output:

Here we see our URL opens for 10 sec then the close() method closes our current webpage.

quit() method in selenium

• It will close the windows which are opened.

Code:

Steps:

1. importing the webdriver from the selenium python library to open URL and time to sleep/wait our program for some time.
2. path of chrome driver to pass into webdriver.
3. we use chrome as a webdriver.
4. Set URL.
5. Opening the URL/website using the get() function.
6. Now we want to sleep our program for 10 sec to properly see our opening website.
7. Now quit() method close the websites.

# importing the webdriver from the selenium python library and time 
from selenium import webdriver 
#path 
path='C:\\Users\\sumit\\.wdm\\drivers\\chromedriver\\win32\\102.0.5005.61\\chromedriver.exe' 
# Here we use chrome as a webdriver 
driver = webdriver.Chrome(path) 
# URL 
url = "https://www.codespeedy.com/" 
# Opening the URL/website 
driver.get(url) 
#sleep/wait our program for 10sec 
time.sleep(10) 
# Closing current window 
driver.quit()

 

Here we see our URL opens for 10 sec then the quit() method closes the webpage.

Thus, we have learned how to close the browser window at the end of a Selenium test program by two methods.