Pressing Browser’s Forward Button – Selenium

Pressing the Browser’s Forward Button

To simulate pressing of the browser’s forward button programmatically using Selenium for Python, call forward() method on the Web Driver object.

driver.forward()

Example

1. Initialise Chrome Web Driver object as driver.
2. Get the URL https://pythonexamples.org/ using web driver object.
3. Find element by link text 'OpenCV' and click on the element.
4. Press browser’s back button using driver.back().
5. Press browser’s forward button using driver.forward().

Python Program

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

service = Service(executable_path="/usr/local/bin/chromedriver")
#initialize web driver
with webdriver.Chrome(service=service) as driver:
    #navigate to the url
    driver.get('https://pythonexamples.org/')
    #find element that has link text : 'OpenCV' and click on it
    driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, 'OpenCV').click()
    #press on browser's back button
    driver.back()
    #press on browser's forward button
    driver.forward()

Screenshots

Navigation Step #1 : Get the URL https://pythonexamples.org/.

Navigation Step #2 : Find OpenCV link and click on it.

Navigation Step #3 : Press the browser’s back button.

Navigation Step #4 : Press the browser’s forward button.

Summary

In this Python Selenium Tutorial, we learned how to press the browser’s forward button using Selenium’s driver.forward() method.