selenium unable to locate element - i've tried find by name, find by classname, find by xpath, but all return unable to locate element

Question

I'm stuck on a very simple part of a selenium script that should take me 5 seconds.

<input type="text" placeholder="000-000-0000" name="phoneNumber" 
class="ew6td2426 css-1p641ex ejlqu6x14" value="">

there are multiple elements with the name phoneNumber, but i just want to grab the first one, which is here.

when i grab the xpath, it gives me this


//*[@id="js-global-container"]/main/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div/div[1]/div/form/input


placing it into the script as this

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='js-global- 
container']/main/div[1]/div[2]/div/div/div/div[1]/div/form/input")

but again, the script says it cannot find the method.

does anyone have an easy fix for this? I cant figure this out and its driving me insane

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 03 '20 at 06:11

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Try switching frames:

driver.switch_to.frame('find your frame element here with driver.find')

For switching back:

driver.switch_to.default_content()

edited Aug 03 '20 at 06:11

Monolith

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answered Aug 02 '20 at 19:12

soswxc

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Where did you find the `frame`? – undetected Selenium Aug 02 '20 at 22:24
just search through html source of the page – soswxc Aug 03 '20 at 05:50
Which page/webpage? – undetected Selenium Aug 03 '20 at 07:07
I don't know the page you are trying to suse selenium on it, but your problem seems to be related to frames, just search frame through the page source. – soswxc Aug 03 '20 at 08:16
I mean to ask, why blaming the frames? Why not blaming the [WebDriver](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48079120/what-is-the-difference-between-chromedriver-and-webdriver-in-selenium/48080871#48080871) instance i.e. the _driver_ or blaming the _Browsing Context_ i.e. _Chrome_? – undetected Selenium Aug 03 '20 at 08:25

selenium unable to locate element - i've tried find by name, find by classname, find by xpath, but all return unable to locate element

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