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simonaferrara
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5 years ago
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Refresh the browser page

Hi all,   I need to refresh the browser within my tests, like doing an F5 on the browser. The "Browsers.Refresh" method seems not suitable for my scope (it refresh the object tree within TestCompl...
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    AlexKaras
    5 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Refresh (F5) in browser essentially requests page a-new from web server.

    So you may use .Navigate() or .ToURL() methods to refresh the page.

    While I am with Marsha and would use F5 unless there are some specific requirements/conditions.

     

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Marsha_R
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5 years ago

Why not use the F5 refresh and then reset your Focus?   You can save the object name before you use F5 if you need to.

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simonaferrara
Frequent Contributor
5 years ago

Yes Marsha_R , but I was looking for a specific method, more reliable, to be used for the browser to refresh it, and it seems strange that it is not existing and that the only way is to press the F5 key within the code. 

 

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    AlexKaras
    Community Hero
    5 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Refresh (F5) in browser essentially requests page a-new from web server.

    So you may use .Navigate() or .ToURL() methods to refresh the page.

    While I am with Marsha and would use F5 unless there are some specific requirements/conditions.