Selenium Webdriver - Unable to find element after page refresh/redirect

Siva

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Mar 25, 2015, 9:21:26 AM3/25/15

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Hi,

I am trying to write some UI test cases for an SAP-webUI (web based) application. After login, it shows the dashboard ( Workcenter's ) screen.

Now the problem is, I am able to open the page, enter U/N, Pwd and login through Selenium. After i press the "Login" button the URL changes and the page got redirected/refreshed.

E.g. URL before login : https://a/b/c/d/e/f/g.htm?sap-client=001&sap-sessioncmd=open

E.g. URL after successful Login : https://a/b(bDsdfsdsf1lg==)/c/d/e/f/g.htm

After this im unable to perform any action or press any link in any part of the page. I tried with all the possible attributes ( css, xpath, id ). Webdriver was unable to find any element on the page. It shows the error "No element found" alone.

<html><body><div><div><iframe>#document<html><head></head><frameset><frameset><frame>#document<html><head></head><body><form><div><div><table><tbody><tr><td><div><ul><li><a id=abcdef></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></form></body></html></frame></frameset></frameset></html></iframe></div></div></body></html>

I am using java with Selenium Web Driver.

Please find the html structure of the webpage below

I want to click the id **abcdef** which is present in the above html code

driver.findElement(By.id("abcdef")).click();

Kindly help.

Regards,

Siva

Shravan Kumar

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Mar 25, 2015, 10:11:45 AM3/25/15

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Hi Siva Kumar,

After going through your html code, I think you are attempting to locate an element in the iframe.

See, you cannot locate an element in an iframe set like we do on general html document.

You need to switch to iframe before locating an element in the iframe set.

Try this code..

driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.id("your required element id")));

Hope this would help you, and please correct me if I made anything wrong here.

Thank you,

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Siva

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Mar 26, 2015, 4:41:08 AM3/26/15

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Hi Shravan,

After using your code, still im getting the error "No such element" as below.

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element

I tried the below code as well.

driver.switchTo().frame("CRMApplicationFrame");

driver.findElement(By.className("th-lk")).click();

OR
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='C4_W16_V17_YMKT-ACLEA']")).click();

Kindly suggest

Regards,
Siva

Shravan Kumar

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Mar 26, 2015, 11:34:16 PM3/26/15

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Hi Shiva,

Does your page contain multiple frames?

If the page has multiple frames, then the first frame would be at index "0", and the second frame would be at index "1".

Once the frame is selected, the driver focuses on that particular frame only. So, the operations we try to perform on the page other

than the selected frame will not work and throws "no such element" error. So, try to choose the frame id properly.

If the frame id is "shravan" (just an example), then driver.switchTo.frame("shravan");

try{

driver.switchTo.frame("shravan");

syso("frame selected");

}

catch(NoSuchFrameException e)

{

syso("unable to find frame" + e.getStackTrace());

}

catch(Exception e)

{

syso("unable to find frame" + e.getStackTrace());

}

Always select a frame by its name or it ID.

Or select a frame using its previous web element.

Please have a look at this site and try them slowly step by step.

http://seleniumeasy.com/selenium-tutorials/how-to-work-with-iframes-in-selenium-webdriver

Please try to understand your html page first, go through your html source code step by step using firebug and analyse it and then write the code. These errors will happen all the time.

For frames and dynamically changing element, never use xpath because frames can be tend to change dynamically whenever web developers wants to change and also can add tags dynamically after some operations.

Hope this will help you and correct me if I said anything wrong,

thank you,

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