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# WebDriver

WebDriver is an interface in selenium library which the object representation of **Web Browser.** Implementation of which is provided by different Browser types line Chrome, FireFox etc.,

```java
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver;
//or
WebDriver driver = new FireFoxDriver();
```

Now we can perform all the actions on the browser using this object.

Some of which are are.

| Modifier and Type                | Method and Description                                                                                                                                                |
| -------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| void                             | close()                                                                                                                                                               |
|                                  | Close the current window, quitting the browser if it's the last window currently open.                                                                                |
| WebElement                       | findElement(By by)                                                                                                                                                    |
|                                  | Find the first WebElement using the given method.                                                                                                                     |
| java.util.List\<WebElement>      | findElements(By by)                                                                                                                                                   |
|                                  | Find all elements within the current page using the given mechanism.                                                                                                  |
| void                             | get(java.lang.String url)                                                                                                                                             |
|                                  | Load a new web page in the current browser window.                                                                                                                    |
| java.lang.String                 | getCurrentUrl()                                                                                                                                                       |
|                                  | Get a string representing the current URL that the browser is looking at.                                                                                             |
| java.lang.String                 | getPageSource()                                                                                                                                                       |
|                                  | Get the source of the last loaded page.                                                                                                                               |
| java.lang.String                 | getTitle()                                                                                                                                                            |
|                                  | The title of the current page.                                                                                                                                        |
| java.lang.String                 | getWindowHandle()                                                                                                                                                     |
|                                  | Return an opaque handle to this window that uniquely identifies it within this driver instance.                                                                       |
| java.util.Set\<java.lang.String> | getWindowHandles()                                                                                                                                                    |
|                                  | Return a set of window handles which can be used to iterate over all open windows of this WebDriver instance by passing them to switchTo().WebDriver.Options.window() |
| WebDriver.Options                | manage()                                                                                                                                                              |
|                                  | Gets the Option interface                                                                                                                                             |
| WebDriver.Navigation             | navigate()                                                                                                                                                            |
|                                  | An abstraction allowing the driver to access the browser's history and to navigate to a given URL.                                                                    |
| void                             | quit()                                                                                                                                                                |
|                                  | Quits this driver, closing every associated window.                                                                                                                   |
| WebDriver.TargetLocator          | switchTo()                                                                                                                                                            |
|                                  | Send future commands to a different frame or window.                                                                                                                  |

**These details are taken from Selenium Official Java Docs.**