# Multi-page scenarios Playwright can automate scenarios that span multiple browser contexts or multiple tabs in a browser window. - [Multiple contexts](#multiple-contexts) - [Multiple pages](#multiple-pages) - [Handling new pages](#handling-new-pages) - [Handling popups](#handling-popups) ## Multiple contexts [Browser contexts](core-concepts.md#browser-contexts) are isolated environments on a single browser instance. Playwright can create multiple browser contexts within a single scenario. This is useful when you want to test for multi-user functionality, like chat. ```js const { chromium } = require('playwright'); // Create a Chromium browser instance const browser = await chromium.launch(); // Create two isolated browser contexts const userContext = await browser.newContext(); const adminContext = await browser.newContext(); // Load user and admin cookies await userContext.addCookies(userCookies); await adminContext.addCookies(adminCookies); ``` #### API reference - [BrowserContext] - [browser.newContext([options])](./api.md#browsernewcontextoptions) - [browserContext.addCookies(cookies)](./api.md#browsercontextaddcookiescookies) ## Multiple pages Each browser context can host multiple pages (tabs). * Each page behaves like a focused, active page. Bringing the page to front is not required. * Pages inside a context respect context-level emulation, like viewport sizes, custom network routes or browser locale. ```js // Create two pages const pageOne = await context.newPage(); const pageTwo = await context.newPage(); // Get pages of a brower context const allPages = context.pages(); ``` #### API reference - [Page] - [browserContext.newPage()](./api.md#browsercontextnewpage) - [browserContext.pages()](./api.md#browsercontextpages) ## Handling new pages The `page` event on browser contexts can be used to get new pages that are created in the context. This can be used to handle new pages opened by `target="_blank"` links. ```js // Get page after a specific action (e.g. clicking a link) const [newPage] = await Promise.all([ context.waitForEvent('page'), page.click('a[target="_blank"]') // Opens a new tab ]) await newPage.waitForLoadState(); console.log(await newPage.title()); ``` If the action that triggers the new page is unknown, the following pattern can be used. ```js // Get all new pages (including popups) in the context context.on('page', async page => { await page.waitForLoadState(); await page.title(); }) ``` #### API reference - [browserContext.on('page')](./api.md#browsercontextonpage) ## Handling popups If the page opens a pop-up, you can get a reference to it by listening to the `popup` event on the page. This event is emitted in addition to the `browserContext.on('page')` event, but only for popups relevant to this page. ```js // Get popup after a specific action (e.g., click) const [popup] = await Promise.all([ page.waitForEvent('popup'), page.click('#open') ]); await popup.waitForLoadState(); await popup.title(); ``` If the action that triggers the popup is unknown, the following pattern can be used. ```js // Get all popups when they open page.on('popup', async popup => { await popup.waitForLoadState(); await popup.title(); }) ``` #### API reference - [page.on('popup')](./api.md#pageonpopup) [Playwright]: api.md#class-playwright "Playwright" [Browser]: api.md#class-browser "Browser" [BrowserContext]: api.md#class-browsercontext "BrowserContext" [Page]: api.md#class-page "Page" [Frame]: api.md#class-frame "Frame" [ElementHandle]: api.md#class-elementhandle "ElementHandle" [JSHandle]: api.md#class-jshandle "JSHandle" [ConsoleMessage]: api.md#class-consolemessage "ConsoleMessage" [Dialog]: api.md#class-dialog "Dialog" [Download]: api.md#class-download "Download" [Video]: api.md#class-video "Video" [FileChooser]: api.md#class-filechooser "FileChooser" [Keyboard]: api.md#class-keyboard "Keyboard" [Mouse]: api.md#class-mouse "Mouse" [Touchscreen]: api.md#class-touchscreen "Touchscreen" [Request]: api.md#class-request "Request" [Response]: api.md#class-response "Response" [Selectors]: api.md#class-selectors "Selectors" [Route]: api.md#class-route "Route" [WebSocket]: api.md#class-websocket "WebSocket" [TimeoutError]: api.md#class-timeouterror "TimeoutError" [Accessibility]: api.md#class-accessibility "Accessibility" [Worker]: api.md#class-worker "Worker" [BrowserServer]: api.md#class-browserserver "BrowserServer" [BrowserType]: api.md#class-browsertype "BrowserType" [Logger]: api.md#class-logger "Logger" [ChromiumBrowser]: api.md#class-chromiumbrowser "ChromiumBrowser" [ChromiumBrowserContext]: api.md#class-chromiumbrowsercontext "ChromiumBrowserContext" [ChromiumCoverage]: api.md#class-chromiumcoverage "ChromiumCoverage" [CDPSession]: api.md#class-cdpsession "CDPSession" [FirefoxBrowser]: api.md#class-firefoxbrowser "FirefoxBrowser" [WebKitBrowser]: api.md#class-webkitbrowser "WebKitBrowser" [Array]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array "Array" [Buffer]: https://nodejs.org/api/buffer.html#buffer_class_buffer "Buffer" [ChildProcess]: https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html "ChildProcess" [Element]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/element "Element" [Error]: https://nodejs.org/api/errors.html#errors_class_error "Error" [EvaluationArgument]: #evaluationargument "Evaluation Argument" [Map]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Map "Map" [Object]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object "Object" [Promise]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise "Promise" [RegExp]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp "RegExp" [Serializable]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/JSON/stringify#Description "Serializable" [UIEvent.detail]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/UIEvent/detail "UIEvent.detail" [URL]: https://nodejs.org/api/url.html "URL" [USKeyboardLayout]: ../src/usKeyboardLayout.ts "USKeyboardLayout" [UnixTime]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time "Unix Time" [boolean]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#Boolean_type "Boolean" [function]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Function "Function" [iterator]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Iteration_protocols "Iterator" [null]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/null "null" [number]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#Number_type "Number" [origin]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Origin "Origin" [selector]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Selectors "selector" [Readable]: https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_class_stream_readable "Readable" [string]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type "string" [xpath]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath "xpath"