How to navigate a subframe inside a frameset using Selenium WebDriver?

Question

I need to get the result from the table \"td\". But before I can do that I need to navigate a frame that contains it. The frame is one of the frameset elements that belongs

Answer 1

Through chaining methods together, once you switchTo().defaultContent, you can create temporary lists of available frames through findElements() by tagName and go to that specific frames' index...

For example

driver.switchTo()defaultContent();
driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.tagName("frameset")).findElements(By.tagName("frame")).get(2));

Answer 2

Find the index of main frame starting from zero then use

driver.switchTo.frame(mainFrameindex);

Then find the index of sub frame in the main frame

driver.switchTo.frame(subFrameIndex);

You cannot directly switch to a child frame without first switching to the parent frame. This is how it works.

Answer 3

I agree, you cannot directly switch to a child frame. Also, make sure to switch to the defaultContent (driver.switchTo.defaultContent) every time you want to switch frame. With regard to your example, driver.switchTo().frame("mainFrame.0.child") --- this could also work, but you need to get rid of unnecessary quotation marks.

Answer 4

You can switch directly to the frame you want with the xPath. Get the Xpath through the Developer console, then:

driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_xpath('html / frameset / frameset / frame[1]'))