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aeinstein83
aeinstein83

Reputation: 289

WebDriver > switch between sibling frames

I have the following HTML with frames

<frameset border="0" cols="*,0">
  <frame scrolling="auto" src="/cgi-bin/haipage/page.html?tpl=ntrc/index" name="smgleft">
    <html>
      <head>
    <frameset frameborder="0" border="0" rows="20%,*" cols="100%">
      <frame scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="/cgi-bin/haipage/page.html?tpl=Administration/b" name="head">
      <frame scrolling="auto" marginhei![enter image description here][1]ght="0" marginwidth="0" src="/cgi-bin/haipage/page.html" name="main">
          </html>
          </frame>
        </frameset>
    </html>
  </frame>
</frameset>

When I land on page I'm using

 wait.until(ExpectedConditions.frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt("head"));

Since I want to access some elements under 'head' frame

Now I want to switch frame = main, so I am using 

 driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
 driver.switchTo().frame("main");

but I get error message saying 'Unable to find frame'. I believe call to driver.switchTo().defaultContent() get to the top, then go down to the frame you want.

Also, when I try to find the frames after switching to the defaultContent(), I see in the logs only one frame = 'smgleft'

 List<WebElement> frameset = driver.findElements(By.tagName("frame"));  
   if(frameset.size()>0) {  
            for (WebElement framename : frameset)
                logger.info("frameid: " + framename.getAttribute("name"));               
            }

Am I missing something here? How do I switch between sibling frames?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4695

Answers (1)

Yi Zeng
Yi Zeng

Reputation: 32855

From what I remember, there is no such thing called "switch between sibling frames". What you were doing should be correct in theory (except for if you want to go inside main from default content, you need to switch to smgleft first)

So have you tried

driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
driver.switchTo().frame("smgleft");
// maybe some debugging here see if you can find frame "main" now
driver.switchTo().frame("main");

Upvotes: 1

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