I m unable to locate the frame - tabFrame from the below screenshot

Question

I'm unable to locate the frame - tabFrame from the attached screenshot, whereas I was able to locate outlookFrame. I used:

driver.switch_to.frame('outlookFrame') 

But when I use:

driver.switch_to.frame('tabFrame')

It doesn't work.

Answer 1

As the desired elements is within nested <iframe> elements so you have to:

• Induce WebDriverWait for the parent frame to be available and switch to it.

• Induce WebDriverWait for the child 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("http://web_page")
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"outlookFrame_cssSelector")))
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe[name='tabFrame']")))
    

  • Using XPATH:

    driver.get("http://web_page")
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"outlookFrame_xpath")))
    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@name='tabFrame']")))
    

• 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
  

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Reference

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• Switch to an iframe through Selenium and python
• How to write appropriate Xpath to locate text value
• How To sign in to Applemusic With Python Using Chrome Driver With Selenium