Selenium can not find an element

Question

Actually my code is simple and the task too, but somehow i get this Error:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"TLoginBox"}

I tried any of the find element and find element by options but none did work. All i found out is that on the website where the login button is, that the button itself somehow is a whole HTML with head, body,...

T-online Email Link

That's my code:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from time import sleep
from selenium import webdriver


browser = webdriver.Chrome('F:/trzttrtz/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver')
browser.get('https://www.t-online.de/themen/e-mail')
sleep(5)
login = browser.find_element(By.ID, value="TLoginBox")
login.click()

I am new to programming, so any help means a lot. Thanks in advance.

As the error indicates, the element TLoginBox doesn't exist. What are you trying to get? — Isma, Sep 06 '20 at 15:45
When u open the Website: there is a pinkish Email-Login Button. I want to click that — dssssssssssddsf, Sep 06 '20 at 15:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 06 '20 at 16:31

The element cannot be found because it is inside another frame, try the following:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from time import sleep
from selenium import webdriver


browser = webdriver.Chrome('F:/trzttrtz/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver')
browser.get('https://www.t-online.de/themen/e-mail')
frame = browser.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, 'TlgnBoxIfr')
browser.switch_to_frame(frame)
login = browser.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, value='TlogBtn')
login.click()

If you want to go back to the main frame use:

browser.switch_to().default_content()

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '20 at 20:51

The element with the text as E-Mail Login is within an <iframe> so you have to:

Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it.
Induce WebDriverWait for the desired element to be clickable.
You can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

driver.get('https://www.t-online.de/themen/e-mail')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe.TlgnBoxIfr")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.TlogBtn>span.mailicn>img"))).click()

Using XPATH:

driver.get('https://www.t-online.de/themen/e-mail')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@class='TlgnBoxIfr']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='TlogBtn']/span[@class='mailicn']/img"))).click()

Note : You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Browser Snapshot:

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