Selenium - How to send keys within an iFrame?

Question

I'm coding a selenium automated bot, and I want to send keys to a input that I got from iFrame, check the code line:

username = bot.find_element_by_xpath("//iframe[@title='Registration form' and @class='top']")

Can you guys help me? I can click on the input, but, on send the keys, it doesn't work and deselect the input field.

If the input element present inside an iframe then You need to switch to `iframe` before interacting with input element.Please [edit] your question with relevant HTML. — KunduK, Sep 14 '20 at 17:07

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-14T17:25:57.920

You don't send character sequence to the <iframe> element rather you would send character sequence to the <input> element within the <iframe>. As the the desired element is within a <iframe> so you have to:

Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt.
Induce WebDriverWait for the desired elementToBeClickable.
You can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@title='Registration form' and @class='top']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@attribure_name='attribute_value']"))).send_keys("Igor Duca")

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.top[title='Registration form']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[attribure_name='attribute_value']"))).send_keys("Igor Duca")

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

You can find a relevant detailed discussion in How to extract all href from a class in Python Selenium?

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