how to get browser's current tab info

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i have a php site.users opens the site in multiple tabs in same browser.now when user in any tab and browsing my site i want to find current tabid of tabinfo by which i can identify current tab.how do i do if needed by javascript too? for mozilla,ie,chrome browsers.Any expert asap?

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mridul

Posted 1-Jan-13 22:45pm

mridul samadder

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Niral Soni 2-Jan-13 5:13am

I will be glad if you tell me the reason for such a unique requirement.

mridul samadder 2-Jan-13 16:15pm

in brief.i need so that i can login and work in each tab as a seperate user.

Karthik. A 2-Jan-13 16:17pm

Why not simply use different browsers for different users, if this is only for testing purposes?

mridul samadder 3-Jan-13 6:07am

no there are other requirements

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Niral Soni · Answer 1 · 2013-01-03T00:45:00

This seems that you want to test your application with different user(roles) and don't want to get into the repetitive activities like login. It is a good idea to speed up and save time.

But as far as I am aware, this is not possible. Reason is -

1) There is no way of identifying whether the browser supports tabs or not.

2) Even if you found a way to get this, browser window can be opened either as a new tab or as new window. So, your code will not work.

3) Browsers like Google Chrome allows user to drag the tabs to make it as another window, or merge multiple windows into single window with multiple tabs. In such cases, your code will not work.

4) Browsers preserves the session values (eg. login user session ids for same domain) and they are shared across the tabs. So, for the same domain, even if you login as different users in different tabs, the most recent session values (means the login id) will be active. To check this, try to open multiple gmail accounts in multiple tabs. It will always open the account of the most recent logged-in user.

Hence I would prefer to use different browsers for login as different user(roles) and use ALT+TAB key to switch between the open windows.

Hope it helps you out...

If you find a solution for this, please do share with us.

Regards,
Niral Soni