WebdriverIO & Java - org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException in IFrame

Question

I'm facing an exception (org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException) when I try to get element "email". Since I just started playing with WebDriver I'm probably missing some important concept about those race conditions.

WebElement login = driver.findElement(By.id("login"));
login.click();
WebElement iFrame = driver.findElement(By.id("iFrame"));
driver.switchTo().frame(iFrame);
WebElement email = driver.findElement(By.id("email"));
email.sendKeys(USERNAME);

Few things that I've tried but with no success:

Set an implicitly wait:

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Create a WebDriverWait:


WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement login = driver.findElement(By.id("login"));
login.click();
WebElement iFrame = driver.findElement(By.id("iFrame"));
driver.switchTo().frame(iFrame);
WebElement email = wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("email"))); 
// and WebElement email = wait.until(visibilityOf(By.id("email"))); 
email.sendKeys(USERNAME);

Create a FluentWait:

WebElement login = driver.findElement(By.id("login"));
login.click();
WebElement iFrame = driver.findElement(By.id("iFrame"));
driver.switchTo().frame(iFrame);
Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<>(driver)
        .withTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(30))
        .pollingEvery(Duration.ofSeconds(5))
        .ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class);

WebElement email = wait.until(d ->
        d.findElement(By.id("email")));
email.sendKeys(USERNAME);

The only way I managed to make it work was using the old and good Thread.sleep() (ugly as well)

WebElement login = driver.findElement(By.id("login"));
login.click();
WebElement iFrame = driver.findElement(By.id("iFrame"));
driver.switchTo().frame(iFrame);
try {
    Thread.sleep(5000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}
WebElement email = driver.findElement(By.id("email"));
email.sendKeys(USERNAME);

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 27 '19 at 13:50

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To send a character sequence to the email element as the the desired element is within an <iframe> so you have to:

Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt().
Induce WebDriverWait for the desired elementToBeClickable().

You can use the following Locator Strategies

driver.findElement(By.id("login")).click();
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(By.id("iFrame")));
new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("email"))).sendKeys(USERNAME);

Here you can find a relevant discussion on Ways to deal with #document under iframe

answered Dec 27 '19 at 13:50

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I got exactely behavior executing your code. If I put a sleep, or delay the execution in debug mode, between line 2 and 3 it works :( – VeryNiceArgumentException Dec 27 '19 at 18:00
@VeryNiceArgumentException Can you share the relevant HTML please? – undetected Selenium Dec 27 '19 at 20:59
this is the site: www.globo.com When you click on login (image at top right) it will pop up the iframe I want to read from. Ids are differemt from the code I posted, but you can see HTML at least. – VeryNiceArgumentException Dec 27 '19 at 23:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 30 '19 at 19:58

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It turns out that the code is ok, but Chrome driver 78 linux 64 bits is messed up. I've tried with Firefox (geckodriver-0.26.0) and it worked like a charm.

Thanks for the help @DebanjanB

answered Dec 30 '19 at 19:58

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