How to navigate a subframe inside a frameset using Selenium WebDriver with Python?

Question

The layout of the hmtl page is the following :

<frameset framespacing="0" border="false" frameborder="0" rows="11%,8%,*">
    <frame name="ENTETE" src="fr_entete.htm" scrolling="no" noresize="" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">Some elements...</frame>
    <frameset framespacing="0" border="false" frameborder="0" cols="35%,7%,*">
        <frame name="SOMMAIRE" src="fr_sommaire.htm" scrolling="no" noresize="" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">Some elements...</frame>
        <frame name="OUTIL" src="fr_outil.htm" scrolling="no" noresize="" marginwidth="2" marginheight="0">Some elements...</frame>
        <frame name="LIBRE" src="fr_libre.asp" scrolling="no" noresize="" marginwidth="2" marginheight="0">Some elements...</frame>
    </frameset>
    <frame name="TRAVAIL" src="cdc_rechgen.asp" scrolling="yes" noresize="" marginwidth="5" marginheight="0" frameborder="0">Some elements...</frame>
</frameset>

I need to access to the frame "SOMMAIRE". This frame is a child of a frameset which is in turn a child of a frameset. I succeed in navigate to frame "TRAVAIL" and "ENTETE" directly, but I can't succeed in navigate the frame "SOMMAIRE"...

I've tried :

driver.switch_to_default_content()
driver.switch_to.frame("ENTETE")
driver.switch_to.frame("SOMMAIRE")

But I always have the following exception :

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchFrameException: Message: no such frame

I've also read those link, but none of them help me to do what I want...

Link1 Link2 Link3

Thanks a lot.

Can you also add where `iframe` tags are closed? Thanks. – alecxe May 25 '15 at 13:25 — alecxe, May 25 '15 at 13:25
I've edited my post to add where iframe tags are closed. – otarie May 25 '15 at 14:43 — otarie, May 25 '15 at 14:43

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 25 '15 at 14:45

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SOMMAIRE frame is not located inside ENTETE frame (and, according to the HTML fragment - it is not inside of any frame actually). This means you don't need to switch to ENTETE first. Just switch directly to SOMMAIRE:

driver.switch_to_default_content()  # in case you were inside an iframe before
driver.switch_to.frame("SOMMAIRE")

answered May 25 '15 at 14:45

alecxe

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In fact when I go to this html page (made with asp), an input text is (by default) selected in the frame "TRAVAIL". I don't know if it help or not, but I can switch to "ENTETE" frame, but neither to "SOMMAIRE", nor "OUTIL" nor "LIBRE" frames. – otarie May 25 '15 at 15:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 24 '16 at 09:56

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Try navigating to SOMMAIRE using XPATH

driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpath_of_SOMMARIE")));

edited Jun 24 '16 at 09:56

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answered Jun 24 '16 at 09:27

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 27 '16 at 09:31

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User neha bedi seemed to be on the right track but the response needed editing: Try

driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_xpath('xpath_of_SOMMARIE'))

This worked for me.

answered Jul 27 '16 at 09:31

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How to navigate a subframe inside a frameset using Selenium WebDriver with Python?

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