Just for anyone else who’s looking for an answer in Ruby, Python, and C# bindings (Selenium 2.33.0).
Note that the actual keys to send depend on your OS. For example, Mac uses CMD + T, instead of Ctrl + T.
Ruby
require 'selenium-webdriver'
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
driver.get('http://stackoverflow.com/')
body = driver.find_element(:tag_name => 'body')
body.send_keys(:control, 't')
driver.quit
Python
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com/")
body = driver.find_element_by_tag_name("body")
body.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 't')
driver.close()
C#
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
namespace StackOverflowTests {
class OpenNewTab {
static void Main(string[] args) {
IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://stackoverflow.com/");
IWebElement body = driver.FindElement(By.TagName("body"));
body.SendKeys(Keys.Control + 't');
driver.Quit();
}
}
}