  
## Introduction
**Selenium** is a powerful tool to programmatically manipulate an internet browser. It supports all major browsers, runs on all major operating systems, and has scripts written in many different languages, including Python, Java, C#, and others.

An interface called Selenium WebDriver enables us to run tests on browsers. It enables us to write test scripts in the programming language of our choice.

## Installation

> **Note:** Before installing the selenium web bindings, run the following command to ensure that Python has been installed.

```
python --version
```
 
To install the selenium web bindings using `pip`, run the following command:

```
pip install selenium
```


## The `refresh()` method

The `refresh()` method is used to refresh the currrent page in selenium.

## Syntax

```
driver.refresh()
```

## Code example
Let's look at the code below:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path="path to the driver") 
driver.get("https://educative.io/")
driver.refresh()
driver.close()


## Code explanation

- Line 1: We import `webdriver` from the  `selenium` module.
- Line 3:  We use the Firefox driver here. A driver object is created by invoking the `Firefox()` method. The path to the driver is specified. The driver can be downloaded from [here](https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/).
- Line 4: We retrieve the  `https://educative.io` web page 
- Line 5: We refresh the webpage using the `refresh()` method.
- Line 6: We close the driver by invoking the `close()` method.

How to refresh a webpage using Selenium WebDriver

Install Selenium, use `driver.refresh()` to refresh the page in WebDriver, and then close the driver.

How to refresh a webpage using Selenium WebDriver

Introduction

Installation

The refresh() method

Syntax

Code example

Code explanation

The `refresh()` method