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I've been trying to enter to an iframe and write text in a search bar ( tag) in Safari:

I can't post the html because it's huge and it isn't mine but this is the iframe code:

<iframe frameborder="0" id="contentIFrame0" name="contentIFrame0" title="Área de contenido" style="border: 0px none; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; left: 0px; right: 0px; height: 100%; width: 100%; visibility: visible; display: block;"> (...Content of the iframe...) </iframe>

Here is python code:

wait.until(ec.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="contentIFrame0"]')))
chk_elem = wait.until(ec.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="2crmGrid_findCriteria"]')))
act = ActionChains(driver)
act.move_to_element(chk_elem)
act.send_keys('Search input', Keys.ENTER).perform()

but I always get this Exception: "selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchFrameException: Message:".

I've been watching some tutorials and even reading the official documentation and I guess my code is Ok. Why it isn't working?

PD: There aren't another iframe before the iframe that I posted and XPATHs are well written. I don't know if it is relevant but we are talking about a web site of dynamics services from microsoft, just in case.

Ale Ortega
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  • Either there isn't a frame with id `contentIFrame0` or its inside another frame and you need to switch to it first. Post the relevant html. – Guy Mar 11 '20 at 05:09
  • Hey!!! I edited the question, I can't get the full html code from my browser but I checked again if there is another iframe before my target iframe and the XPATH and all is right but the problem persists. – Ale Ortega Mar 11 '20 at 05:45
  • `I can't get the full html code from my browser` what is stopping you from doing that unless it is security concern. – Dev Mar 11 '20 at 06:00
  • Actually is all about security reasons of the institution. Could it be about the iframe is loading too slow or something like that? – Ale Ortega Mar 11 '20 at 06:06

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This error message...

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchFrameException

...implies that Selenium driven WebDriver instance was unable to locate the <iframe> element.

You have adapted the right approach. Ideally, to locate an you have to induce WebDriverWait inconjunction with expected_conditions set as frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it().

However, there can be numerous reasons behind seeing this error and some of the reasons and solutions are as follows:

  • The desired iframe may be a nested iframe within it's parent iframe. In those cases you have to induce WebDriverWait first to switch to the parent iframe and then to the child iframe as follows:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"parent_iframe_xpath")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"child_iframe_xpath")))

  • If you are switching between two sibling iframes then you first need to switch back to the default_content first and then switch to the sibling iframe as follows:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"sibling_iframe_A")))
driver.switch_to.default_content()
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"sibling_iframe_B")))

You can find a detailed discussion in How to address “WebDriverException: Message: TypeError: can't access dead object” and wait for a frame to be available using Selenium and Python

  • At times multiple iframes can have similar values for same attributes. In those cases, you may need to construct Locator Strategies which identifies the <iframe> element uniquely using the src attribute as follows:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@id="iframe_id and @src='iframe_src'"]")))

You can find a detailed discussion in Ways to deal with #document under iframe

Reference

You can find a couple of reference discussions in:

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    Thank you for the answer, it was pretty useful to learn more good practices with selenium!!! I'll mark it right. Actually I already solved the problem, the problem was iframe loading slowly and selenium driver catch the iframe but it can't get elements inside it because the element hasn't load yet. – Ale Ortega Mar 11 '20 at 14:48
  • Hi @DebanjanB - I had similar question here - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60750498/select-frame-fails-with-no-frame-to-select-in-robotframework but the problem I see is that in the source I see this msg Oops! Your browser is not compatible with iframes, is it something common when the browser opens in automation mode? I am still not able to figure out the problem though :( – Melwyn Jensen Mar 19 '20 at 10:56