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kevin_kapell
Frequent Contributor
10 years ago

URL is being entered into the wrong browser tab

I am trying to script opening a new tab in a web browser and navigating to a URL in the new tab. However what happens is I get the new tab but the URL is being entered into the first tab 9the one th...
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ghuff2
Contributor
10 years ago

Calling the Page("*") method with an asterisk is always going to return the first opened tab in the browser. You can usually name map different Pages, or pass in the URL and index when calling the Page() method.

 

Here's the doc for the Page()

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EVarnavsky
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10 years ago

Please use ToUrl method of a Browser object. This method uses a first visible page - the new tab in this case,

 

function testcode(){
var browser, page;
browser = Sys.Browser("*");
browser.BrowserWindow(0).Keys("^t");
page = browser.ToUrl('yahoo.com');
}