Xpath seems to work in the browser but selenium is unable to pick it

Question

On this page "https://www.javatpoint.com/oprweb/test.jsp?filename=htmltable5" the attempt is to pick the first name and the last name if the marks are above 75. Wrote this xpath to find elements which has marks over 75 ".//tbody/tr/td[number(.)>75]" which works in browser but is not found by selenium at runtime. The size of the findElements simply returns 0 and the test fails on putting a wait on condition.

Answer 1

Your xpath looks correct but web table your trying to interact is in frame. You first need to switch into that particular frame before interacting with WebElement inside it.

We can switch into frames using 3 ways.

• By Index
• By Name or Id
• By Web Element

If you search for iframe in html, you will find out frame as id="iframewrapper" and use below code to switch into frame:

driver.switchTo().frame("iframewrapper")

For further details on frames in selenium, kindly refer to this SO thread.