Python with selenium: unable to locate element which really exist

Question

I've been trying to fill input:

<input id="PASSFIELD1" class="logField" type="password" onkeyup="next(this, event);" maxlength="1" autocomplete="off" name="PASSFIELD1"></input>

To do this, I have to find this element.

I tried below things:

1. pass1=driver.find_element_by_name("PASSFIELD1")

2. pass1=driver.find_element_by_id("PASSFIELD1")

3. pass1= driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[4]/div/div/div[2]/div/form/div[3]/table/tbody/tr[3]/td[2]/div/input[1]") (path from firebug)

4. Even wait 100 seconds for it

self.wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"/html/body/div[4]/div/div/div[2]/div/form/div[3]/table/tbody/tr[3]/td[2]/div/input[1]")))

self.assertTrue(self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[4]/div/div/div[2]/div/form/div[3]/table/tbody/tr[3]/td[2]/div/input[1]"))

I always get:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: 'Unable to locate element: (...)

Do you know what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

 The problem is that your input tag is inside an iframe, you need to switch to(Method which gives you access to switch frames and windows) it first:

frame = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//frame[@name="main"]') driver.switch_to.frame(frame) pass1 = driver.find_element_by_id("PASSFIELD1")

I hope this helps!

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