How to open a link embeded in a webelement with in the main tab, in a new tab of the same window using Control + Click of Selenium Webdriver

As there is a link embedded within in the webelement in the Parent Tab, to open the link in a New Tab in the same window using Selenium and Python you can use the following solution:

To demonstrate the workflow the url https://www.google.com/ was opened in the Parent Tab and then open in new tab functionalty is implemented through ActionChains methods key_down(), click() and key_up() methods.

• Code Block:

  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
  from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
  import time
  
  options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
  options.add_argument("start-maximized")
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
  driver.get("https://www.google.com/")
  link = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Gmail")))
  ActionChains(driver).key_down(Keys.CONTROL).click(link).key_up(Keys.CONTROL).perform()
  

• Note: You need to replace (By.LINK_TEXT, "Gmail") with your desired locator e.g. ("div[data-res-position = '1']")

• Browser Snapshot:

You can find a relevant Java based solution in Opening a new tab using Ctrl + click combination in Selenium Webdriver

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Update

To shift Selenium’s focus to the newly opened tab you can find a detailed discussion in Open web in new tab Selenium + Python