Element not found when there is an IFRAME in the XPATH.

[Douglas Pennington]

Hello,

I'm trying to automate our testing using Selenium RC (selenium-server-
standalone-2.0b2.jar). I'm writing my code in JAVA.
The situation is this:
Our application run ColdFusion. The ColdFusion app renders html to
display pages on the fly. I've had success using .clickAt() method to
click on objects. I'm clicking by ID of individual elements (menus,
buttons, etc). However, the ID for these objects is dynamic. To work
around it, I'm building out XPATH to get at these objects. The issue
I'm running into is that some objects, menus for example, I'll get the
XPATH and run my script. I get an error that it can't find the
element, and returns my XPATH. Other XPATHs to objects work. I
discovered the culprit is the paths/elements that don't work. Have
IFRAME in the path.

So at this point, I tried implementing the following code at:
http://www.testingexcellence.com/accessing-iframe-data-with-selenium-rc/,
which returns TRUE that it is able to verify that the menu text I'm
searching for is there, but I'm still unable to click that paticular
menu option or any other object that sits under and IFRAME.

I'm new to Selenium, and if anyone has any guidance as to a solution
around this issue, I'd deeply appreciate it.

Thank you.

[Mark Collin]

You have to switch to the iFrame before you can interact with elements held
within it.

Selenium 2 Implementation

WebElement iframe = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//iframe"));
driver.switchTo().frame(iframe);
//do stuff

Selenium 1 Implementation

selenium.selectFrame("//iframe");
//do stuff

Hello,

Thank you.

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[Douglas Pennington]

Thanks for the reply Mark.

I'm using the Selenium 1 implementation. I'm trying to select an
item on a menu (in class TopNavMenuContainer) The menu Desktop I'm
able to click on by ID, since its ID doesn't change. Under menu
Desktop is an item Activity Center. Activity Center id is dynamic.
So I'm trying to use XPATH to click on this element

I have the following:

oDefaultSelenium.selectFrame("//iframe");
oDefaultSelenium.clickAt("/div/div/table/div/div/div/table/tbody/tr/
td", "1,1");

Which returns Element Not Found

I've tried replacing the XPATH with

oDefaultSelenium.clickAt("//td[contains(text(), 'Activity Center')]",
"1,1");

Again Element Not Found.

I've even tried selecting the Frame by ID then using XPATH or looking
at the text, and no avail.

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[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Douglas,

Are you trying this on Selenium 2.5.0 ? Coz I happened to notice you mentioning that you were using 2.0b2.jar.

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Douglas Pennington]

I believe I'm using the Selenium 1 implementation. I haven't upgraded
to Selenium2, and not sure if doing so if going to solve my issue.


On Sep 8, 9:47 am, Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Luke Inman-Semerau]

The 2.5.0 release contains both the RC API and WebDriver API

It is a misnomer to say Selenium2 API since it includes both.

-Luke

[Douglas Pennington]

Hey Mark,

You're code snippet

WebElement iframe = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//iframe"));
driver.switchTo().frame(iframe);

What is "driver" defined as?

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[Gulshan Saini]

in above example driver is

WebDriver driver = new FireFoxDriver();

now  you can do anything with this driver as you did in selenium 1.

driver.get(......);
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[Douglas Pennington]

I'm using IE (app only works in IE and FF is not an option), what
would that be. Or a better question is there documentation you can
recommend for this?

Thank you.

[Luke Inman-Semerau]

WebDriver driver = InternetExplorerDriver();

This is the official docs... 

http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.html

but there is more info out there, like also the official wiki:

http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver

and I'm sure google has some more info too...

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[Douglas Pennington]

Okay, I'm using WebDriver now.

I've the following:

oDefaultSelenium.clickAt("id=td0",
"1,1"); //This clicks on the menu called "Desktop"
oDefaultSelenium.selectFrame("id=BHOpen"); //iframe
try {
Thread.sleep(10000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}

ArrayList<WebElement> ls=new ArrayList<WebElement>();
WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();
ls = (ArrayList<WebElement>)
driver.findElements(By.className("XPmenu"));
System.out.print(ls.size());

My arraylist is alway 0. I'm still trying to get at the menu items
under the Desktop menu. At this point, I'm completely stumped. I'm
able to click on that menu if I use the ID of that element, but not
anything else.

Help!

[Luke Inman-Semerau]

Ummm.... because you are instantiating a new HtmlUnitDriver, of course it will return an empty list.

How is oDefaultSelenium constructed? Using WebDriverBackedSelenium?  If so, change the line with HtmlUnitDriver to:

WebDriver driver = ((WebDriverBackedSelenium)oDefaultSelenium).getWrappedDriver();

If not and you are using just Selenium, you'll have to continue using the RC api and not webdriver.

[Douglas Pennington]

I'm defining oDefaultSelenium as:

DefaultSelenium oDefaultSelenium = new DefaultSelenium(sServerHost,
iServerPort, sBrowserType, sBaseUrl);

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[Luke Inman-Semerau]

Two options... drop the webdriver code and only use RC 

or start using webdriverbackedselenium and change that line to be:

DefaultSelenium selenium = new WebDriverBackedSelenium(new InternetExplorerDriver(), sBaseUrl);

and then you can use the line mentioned in my previous email.

[Douglas Pennington]

So, if I go back to using RC, how do I work around my issue mentioned
at the begining of this thread?

The thing is, If I do something like:

oDefaultSelenium.clickAt("id=td0", "1,1");

I'm able to click on a menu item.

However, XPATH does not work.
Selecting the iframe before using the XPATH also does not work.
Returns "element not found."


Also, please excuse my Selenium ignorance. I'm a definite newbie to
the Selenium world, and I appreciate the feedback and help I'm getting
here.

[Luke Inman-Semerau]

I'm not certain with the problem you're seeing with RC... I'm no expert there. Any chance you can switch to start using WebDriver?

[Douglas Pennington]

I'm up for trying anything to solve this problem.

Do I need to do anything special with my current code to switch from
using RC to WebDriver?

[Luke Inman-Semerau]

You only need to change the constructor on the DefaultSelenium object (like I wrote in a previous email here) and then you'll be able to use WebDriver and keep the old selenium RC code.

[Douglas Pennington]

Do I need to change the selenium RC jar I'm using or have linked in my
Eclipse?

[Luke Inman-Semerau]

I guess I assumed you had everything linked in already from a 2.X version... which contains both RC and WebDriver. Since 2.6.0 was just released today, go ahead and remove your current one and download the latest :) 

http://seleniumhq.org/download

You can either grab the zip (Java Client Drivers) or just the Standalone-Server jar and link it in. (The zip contains other jars that are dependencies that you may need).

[Douglas Pennington]

Thanks everyone. I got the WebDriver to work with my application. So
far I can only interact with the elements using XPATH, which is fine
for the moment
and gets the automation effort on its way.

Thanks again!

On Sep 13, 2:21 pm, Douglas Pennington <dapennington1...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Do I need to change the selenium RC jar I'm using or have linked in my
> Eclipse?
>
> On Sep 12, 4:27 pm, Luke Inman-Semerau <luke.seme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > You only need to change the constructor on the DefaultSelenium object (like
> > I wrote in a previous email here) and then you'll be able to use WebDriver
> > and keep the old selenium RC code.
>
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Douglas Pennington <
>
> > dapennington1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm up for trying anything to solve this problem.
>
> > > Do I need to do anything special with my current code to switch from
> > > using RC to WebDriver?
>
> > > On Sep 9, 4:28 pm, Luke Inman-Semerau <luke.seme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I'm not certain with the problem you're seeing with RC... I'm no expert
> > > > there. Any chance you can switch to start using WebDriver?
>
> > > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Douglas Pennington <
>
> > > > dapennington1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > So, if I go back to using RC,  how do I work around my issue mentioned
> > > > > at the begining of this thread?
>
> > > > > The thing is,  If I do something like:
>
> > > > > oDefaultSelenium.clickAt("id=td0", "1,1");
>
> > > > > I'm able to click on a menu item.
>
> > > > > However, XPATH does not work.

> > > > > Selecting theiframebefore using the XPATH also does not work.

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