Python Selenium Webdriver - Navigating nested frame sets

Question

I\'m working on a page with nested frames, and am unable to access a child frame. Brief outline of HTML source:

Answer 1

Try this:

driver.switch_to_frame("name")
driver.switch_to_frame("mid2")

The issue you're running into is that javascript can only work with the current frame it sees. mid2 is in a child frame it cannot see if you're at the top of the document.

Answer 2

The <frame> tag with name as mid2 seems to be nested within 2 additional layers of <frame>.

to access the <frame> with name attribute as mid2 you have to:

• Ignore (safely) the presence of parent / child <frameset> tags.
• Induce WebDriverWait for the first layer of <frame> to be available and switch to it.
• Induce WebDriverWait for the second layer of <frame> to be available and switch to it.
• Induce WebDriverWait for the desired <frame> to be available and switch to it.

• You can use the following solution:

  • Code Block:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.NAME,"name")))
    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"frame[name='mid1']")))
    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//frame[@name='mid2' and starts-with(@src, 'chkclineversion')]")))
    

  • Note : You have to add the following imports :

    from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
    from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
    from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
    

You can find a relevant discussion in How to locate and click on an element which is nested within multiple frame and frameset through Selenium using Webdriver and C#

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