switchTo().frame() is not working when the iFrame is directly under the <body> tag

Robins Mathew

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Jul 4, 2016, 6:47:02 AM7/4/16

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I have worked with iframes and I have never faced any issues with it so far. But recently I was having an issue with switching to an iframe.

Please help if anybody have faced the same issue. I can resolve the issue by adding iframe to a div but thats not the right way to do it. I am wondering if this is a selenium bug

If the iframe is directly under the tag <body> <iframe></iframe> </body> switching is not working

But if the same iframe is inside <body> <div> <iframe></iframe> <div> </body> switching will work

Saravana Kumar N

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Jul 20, 2016, 10:30:46 PM7/20/16

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I am also facing the same issue.

Andrew Jervis

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Jul 22, 2016, 12:23:53 PM7/22/16

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Robins/Saravana

This thread in stack overflow may help

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20069737/how-to-identify-and-switch-to-the-frame-in-selenium-webdriver-when-frame-does-no

Regards, Andrew Jervis

Robins Mathew

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Jul 25, 2016, 4:45:25 AM7/25/16

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Hi Andrew,

Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately none of this works if the iFrame is a directly under the <body> tag

Thanks,

Robins

ms surya kumar

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Jul 25, 2016, 6:42:47 AM7/25/16

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Even I faced the same Problem when dealing with new application..

Mallik H

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Jul 25, 2016, 9:24:14 AM7/25/16

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Please give a try: below information might help (yet to test, sorry:)

Issue happens while trying to switch to frame using frame name or frame id ?
driver.switchto.frame(name/id)

And this issue is only on Windows platform.

Workaround is to switch to frame using webelement.
driver.switchto.frame(webElement

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Robins Mathew

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Jul 25, 2016, 9:40:38 AM7/25/16

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Hi Mallik,

I have tried all possible options.

driver.switchto.frame(name);

driver.switchto.frame(id);

driver.switchto.frame(WebElement);

Nothing works when the iFrame is in <body> tag

Robins Mathew

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Jul 25, 2016, 9:42:01 AM7/25/16

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Hi Surya,

Were your iframe firectly under <body>?

Thanks,

Robins

praveen kumar cherukuri

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Jul 25, 2016, 10:00:39 AM7/25/16

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<<This is not answer to the issue nor any suggestion to try something..>>

- Are you able to find the webelement in the dom (in a selenium browser)

: You can print the page source before switching to the webelement and observe if the iframe is actually rendered or not.

- I'm suspicious that the selenium focus is already on the iframe.

: Shouldn't be trivial thing. as you might have already tried this option by now.

Just curious to know if there is a public version of your site.. or a sandbox version.. which can be shared.

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Robins Mathew

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Jul 25, 2016, 10:10:16 AM7/25/16

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Hi Praveen,

Thanks for the inputs.

I am able to find the WebElement(iframe[class^='wc-UserPopups_Frame']) in the dom.

If I print the page source before switching to the webelement it displays iframe[class^='wc-UserPopups_Frame'] in the returned string.

Selenium focus is not on the iframe when i try to switch. It is in the parent window.

The same iFrame I have taken out from<body><\body> and placed it in a <div><\div> it worked. Here the problem is if iFrame is in the <body> tag it wont switch.

It happened to me in 2 applications. switching did not work when iFrame is directly under<body>

unfortunately both the application are not in public domain now.

Thanks,

Robins

Saravana Kumar N

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Jul 25, 2016, 10:56:11 AM7/25/16

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We tried almost all the options. Since we could not find a solution, we asked dev team to embed the IFrame in <div> tag, that's resolved our problem.

Thanks,

Saravana

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Mallik H

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Jul 26, 2016, 9:23:57 AM7/26/16

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On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 4:17:02 PM UTC+5:30, Robins Mathew wrote:

Mallik H

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Jul 26, 2016, 9:31:14 AM7/26/16

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Sorry my previous reply (which wasn't tested fully):

Below is the working code : (i) When the iframe is directly inside the body tag

for example: <link rel="stylesheet" href="common.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="signin.css">
</head>

<body>
<iframe src="http://www.w3schools.com"></iframe>
<div class="header" ng-controller="repLoginCtrl as repLoginCtrl">
<header class="container-fluid">
    <div class="content"></div>
</header>
<div class="page-title">

public static void main(String[] arg) throws InterruptedException
    {
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        driver.get("file:///D:/myhtml.html");

        List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.tagName("iframe"));

        WebElement element = null;

        for(WebElement ele: elements)
        {
            if(ele.getAttribute("src").contains("http://www.w3schools.com"))
            {
                element = ele;
                break;
            }
        }
        driver.switchTo().frame(element);
        new WebDriverWait(driver, 60).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@title, 'Translate W3Schools')]"))));

        System.err.println("href attribute value : "+ driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@href, 'http://www.w3schools.com')]")).getAttribute("href"));
        System.out.println("\n");
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@title, 'Translate W3Schools')]")).click();

Robins Mathew

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Jul 26, 2016, 9:35:12 AM7/26/16

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Thanks for that Mallik,

I have not tested it with firefoxDriver. I am using ChromeDriver with RemoteWebDriver.

Since you already have the setup. Is it possible for you to do a quick run in ChromeDriver to see if it works?

Anyways I will try with FireFoxDriver

Mallik H

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Jul 26, 2016, 9:53:06 AM7/26/16

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Rebins Mathew,

I have attempted to run test script upon modification for chrome browser, but i'm facing chrome browser launch issue, as currently installed with older version of chrome browser on my desktop (error line : Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome version must be >= 49.0.2623.0)

Request to give a try using below code for CHROME Browser:

        //WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:" + File.separator + "chromedriver_win32" + File.separator + "chromedriver.exe");

        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        driver.get("file:///D:/myhtml.html");

        List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.tagName("iframe"));

        WebElement element = null;

        for(WebElement ele: elements)
        {
            if(ele.getAttribute("src").contains("http://www.w3schools.com"))
            {
                element = ele;
                break;
            }
        }
        driver.switchTo().frame(element);
        new WebDriverWait(driver, 60).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@title, 'Translate W3Schools')]"))));

        System.err.println("href attribute value : "+ driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@href, 'http://www.w3schools.com')]")).getAttribute("href"));
        System.out.println("\n");
        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(@title, 'Translate W3Schools')]")).click();

Robins Mathew

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Jul 26, 2016, 10:50:38 AM7/26/16

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Hi Mallik,

Thanks for the help. It worked with the sample website you have provides. But for some reason its not working with our application. It can be something different the way they construct an iFrame.

Anyways thanks for spending time on this.

Thanks,

Robins

Biswajit Pattanaik

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Aug 4, 2016, 8:06:54 AM8/4/16

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Hi Robins,

Use this code it will work, In my project it's working fine.

driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//iframe[@name='XXXXXXXXXX']"))); //Switch to Frame