Selenium raises NoSuchElementException interacting with dropdown within iframe

Question

I am working on following link

I am not able to even extract first drop down too. I have been working with selenium version 3.14

I have written following code:

user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, " \
             "like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.60 Safari/537.36"
options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
options.headless = False
options.add_argument(f'user-agent={user_agent}')
options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080")
options.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
options.add_argument('--allow-running-insecure-content')
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
options.add_argument("--proxy-server='direct://'")
options.add_argument("--proxy-bypass-list=*")
options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=GeckoDriverManager().install(), options=options)
driver.get("https://election.gov.np/np/page/voter-list-db")
driver.implicitly_wait(5)

Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.presence_of_element_located(
                (By.XPATH, "//select[@id='state']")))).select_by_value("5")
time.sleep(5)

I always get:

selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message:

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '22 at 04:21

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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 XPATH:

driver.get("https://election.gov.np/np/page/voter-list-db")
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@name='bbvrs']")))
Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//select[@id='state']")))).select_by_value("5")

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:

Reference

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

Switch to an iframe through Selenium and python

answered Apr 10 '22 at 04:21

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wow thanks i never knew this concept what does this i frame actually does? – lord stock Apr 10 '22 at 04:26
@nava Check the embedded links :) – undetected Selenium Apr 10 '22 at 04:27
do i need to write same iframe code for every drop down case as i am getting error everytime on other drop down case can you help in tha? – lord stock Apr 10 '22 at 05:01
If you are within the same iframe, you won't have to. Incase the elements are in different frames then you have to change Selenium's focus accordingly. – undetected Selenium Apr 10 '22 at 05:03
i am able to rarely pass these drop down once in every 10 times by following this idea :( – lord stock Apr 10 '22 at 05:04
Feel free to raise a new question with your new requirement. – undetected Selenium Apr 10 '22 at 05:05
I have asked new question based as i almost completed my work here is new error i got ```https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71817549/selenium-error-either-the-element-is-no-longer-attached-to-the-dom-it-is-not``` – lord stock Apr 10 '22 at 14:32

Selenium raises NoSuchElementException interacting with dropdown within iframe

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