selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message error sending text to username field within iframe using Selenium Python

Question

When i try to locate one element with selellium it fails

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = r'./chromedriver.exe')

driver.get("http://eltiempo.com/login")
try:
    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@id='username']"))
    )

finally:
    driver.quit()

Any reason for using XPATH over id selector?. Please try with id selector, id is unique in entire DOM and id selector works much better than xpath. Even [xpath works differently in different browsers](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23053632/is-xpath-is-different-for-different-browser), so if you want to run your code in all machine id selector is much better — Sajid, Dec 14 '20 at 05:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '20 at 15:32

To send a character sequence to the username field as the element 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.eltiempo.com/login")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe.iframe-login")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[name='username']"))).send_keys("Nick Rondon@stackoverflow.com")

Using XPATH:

driver.get('https://www.eltiempo.com/login')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@class='iframe-login']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@name='username']"))).send_keys("Nick Rondon@stackoverflow.com")

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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