Element isnt found when opening an url in a new window.

[RickVK04]

Hi there,

Ive made some code that loads up a website and puts some random words into a text area. It works perfectly fine when loading the website with open(url) etc. However, when I open a new window, and switch to that window and then open the same url using the exact same code, the text area isnt found. Doesnt matter if I add driver.sleep, increase the timeout etc. I dont understand how it works perfectly fine but then when using it in a new window it doesnt. Anyone encountered the same issue?

[mdmintz]

Hello. Not sure what you're doing, (since you haven't provided any code to work with), but you should try this example test that works with multiple windows/tabs, and switching between them: SeleniumBase/examples/test_window_switching.py

[RickVK04]

I have managed to solve the issue. The code I was talking about was sb.driver.type('#input', "blablabla"). It did find #input when I just used sb.open(url) but when I first did sb.open_new_window(), switched to that window and then did sb.open(url) it couldn't find the #input. I fixed this by changing all my clicks I did to get to the #input from uc_click to a normal sb.click(). No clue why this then does allow the #input to be found, maybe the site protects the input or something.