Selenium 2 - Switching focus to a frame that has no name/id

Question

So right now I\'m trying to figure out how I can switch focus to a frame in Selenium 2 when the frame has no name or id? For a named frame I do:

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Answer 1

In addition to using the index (as the other answers suggest), in C# you can select the iFrame by tagName. My example assumes there is one and only one iFrame on the page.

try
{
    var iFrameElement = Driver.FindElementByTagName("iFrame");
    var driver = Driver.SwitchTo().Frame(this.iFrameElement);    
    var element = driver.FindElement(selector);

    // do what you need with the element
}
finally
{
    // don't forget to switch back to the DefaultContent
    Driver.SwitchTo().DefaultContent();
}

Note: You have to get the information from the IWebElement .Text or .Click for example, before calling Driver.SwitchTo().DefaultContent();

I created these extensions methods to help

public static IWebDriver SwitchToIFrame(this RemoteWebDriver driver)
{
    // http://computerrecipes.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/selenium-webdriver-interact-with-an-element-inside-an-iframe/
    // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3549584/selenium-2-switching-focus-to-a-frame-that-has-no-name-id
    var iFrameElement = driver.FindElementByTagName("iFrame");
    return driver.SwitchTo().Frame(iFrameElement);
}

public static void SwitchOutOfIFrame(this IWebDriver driver)
{
    driver.SwitchTo().DefaultContent();
}

An example of using the extensions methods:

public void ClickPrintButton()
{
    var iFrameDriver = Browser.Driver.SwitchToIFrame();
    try
    {
        iFrameDriver.FindElement(By.Id("saveButton")).Click();
    }
    finally
    {
        Browser.Driver.SwitchOutOfIFrame();
    }
}