How to identify elements within #document

Question

I'm using xpath to scrape information from a dynamic html table. The information I'm trying to scrape is inside of a tag called #document and I'm not sure how to include this in the xpath since it doesn't follow the normal <>...</> format of most html elements. I also don't have the option to select the xpath when I open the options to the left of the tag in the inspector. What do I do here? I've included a snippet below of the tag I'm referring to.

<iframe>
    #document
        <html>...</html>
</iframe>

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 22 '22 at 19:47

The <html> underneth the #document is within an <iframe>. To access the elements within that <html> you have to:

Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it as follows:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"iframe_xpath")))

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

How to identify elements within #document

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