You have to perform switching, all you need to do is switch into the frame and then switch back out. Firstly, you would have to locate them on the web page. Take a look at the code; here I have provided three different mechanisms by which you can do this. They are:
– By using the tag name ( here tag name is ‘iframe’)
– By using the Id of IFrame
– By using the name of IFrame
Here is a specific code snippet which will perform switching between frames.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.maximize_window()
location = "file://<Specify Path to IFrame.HTML>"
driver.get(location)
########Section-1
# we will use tag "iframe" to get the list of iframes present on the web page
seq = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('iframe')
print("No of frames present in the web page are: ", len(seq))
#switching between the iframes based on the index
for index in range(len(seq)):
driver.switch_to_default_content()
iframe = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('iframe')[index]
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)
driver.implicitly_wait(30)
#highlight the contents of the selected iframe
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('a').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL, 'a')
time.sleep(2)
# undo the selection within the iframe
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('p').click()
driver.implicitly_wait(30)
driver.switch_to.default_content()
########Section-2
#switch to a specific iframe (First frame) using Id as the locator
iframe = driver.find_element_by_id('FR1')
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_id('s').send_keys("Selected")
driver.switch_to.default_content()
########Section-3
#switch to a specific iframe (Second frame) using the name as the locator
iframe = driver.find_element_by_name('frame2')
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('a').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL, 'a')
If you analyze the code:
1) First of all, you must save the HTML code, given above as IFrame.HTML on your machine.
2) Next, you must provide the correct path in the placeholder given in the above snippet. You must use forward-slash while specifying the file-path of the web page. Otherwise, it may not work accurately. For example, here I have given the path of the file as.
location = "file://C:/Users/Automation-Dev/Desktop/selenium/IFrame.HTML"
3) Section-1 of the code provides the list of IFrames present on the web page.
seq= driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('iframe')
4) We do the switching between the IFrames by traversing through this list using the following step.
iframe = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('iframe')[index]
driver.switch_to.frame(iframe)
5) Every time you need to move back from an IFrame to the parent HTML. Selenium Webdriver provides the following method.
driver.switch_to.default_content()
6) In Section-2, we switch to a specific IFrame using the locator as ‘id.’
iframe = driver.find_element_by_id('FR1')
7) In Section-3, we switch to a specific IFrame using the locator as ‘name.’
iframe = driver.find_element_by_name('frame2')
I hope this helps!
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