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Ale Ortega
Ale Ortega

Reputation: 55

Selenium (Python) >> selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchFrameException:

I've been trying to enter to an iframe and write text in a search bar ( tag) in Safari:

I can't post the html because it's huge and it isn't mine but this is the iframe code:

<iframe frameborder="0" id="contentIFrame0" name="contentIFrame0" title="Área de contenido" style="border: 0px none; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; left: 0px; right: 0px; height: 100%; width: 100%; visibility: visible; display: block;"> (...Content of the iframe...) </iframe>

Here is python code:

wait.until(ec.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="contentIFrame0"]')))
chk_elem = wait.until(ec.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="2crmGrid_findCriteria"]')))
act = ActionChains(driver)
act.move_to_element(chk_elem)
act.send_keys('Search input', Keys.ENTER).perform()

but I always get this Exception: "selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchFrameException: Message:".

I've been watching some tutorials and even reading the official documentation and I guess my code is Ok. Why it isn't working?

PD: There aren't another iframe before the iframe that I posted and XPATHs are well written. I don't know if it is relevant but we are talking about a web site of dynamics services from microsoft, just in case.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2335

Answers (1)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193088

This error message...

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchFrameException

...implies that Selenium driven WebDriver instance was unable to locate the <iframe> element.

You have adapted the right approach. Ideally, to locate an you have to induce WebDriverWait inconjunction with expected_conditions set as frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it().

However, there can be numerous reasons behind seeing this error and some of the reasons and solutions are as follows:

  • The desired iframe may be a nested iframe within it's parent iframe. In those cases you have to induce WebDriverWait first to switch to the parent iframe and then to the child iframe as follows:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"parent_iframe_xpath")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"child_iframe_xpath")))

  • If you are switching between two sibling iframes then you first need to switch back to the default_content first and then switch to the sibling iframe as follows:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"sibling_iframe_A")))
driver.switch_to.default_content()
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"sibling_iframe_B")))

You can find a detailed discussion in How to address “WebDriverException: Message: TypeError: can't access dead object” and wait for a frame to be available using Selenium and Python

  • At times multiple iframes can have similar values for same attributes. In those cases, you may need to construct Locator Strategies which identifies the <iframe> element uniquely using the src attribute as follows:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@id="iframe_id and @src='iframe_src'"]")))

You can find a detailed discussion in Ways to deal with #document under iframe

Reference

You can find a couple of reference discussions in:

Upvotes: 1

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