In this tutorial, we will discuss on Difference between the close() and quit() methods in Selenium WebDriver

‘close()’ method closes the currently active/focus window or tab of the current browser instance.

‘quit()’ method closes all open windows or tabs of the current browser instance.

Example:

package TestAutomationCentral;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WindowType;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

public class CloseAndQuitDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

        //TestAutomationCentral.com
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\temp\\drivers\\chromedriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://www.google.com/");
        driver.switchTo().newWindow(WindowType.WINDOW);
        driver.get("https://testautomationcentral.com/");
        Thread.sleep(2500);
        driver.close();
        Thread.sleep(2500);
        driver.quit();
    }
}

In the above Selenium WebDriver Java example, we have used Thread.sleep(2500) to validate the close() and quit(). Otherwise, the execution will be very fast and we can’t notice quit() and close()