How to identify and switch to the frame in selenium webdriver when frame does not have id

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Can anyone tell me how I can identify and switch to the iframe which has only a title    lt iframe frameborder  0  style  border  0px none  width  100   height  356px  min-width  0px  min-height  0px  overflow  auto   dojoattachpoint  frame  title  Fill Quote  src  https   tssstrpms501 corp trelleborg com 12001 teamworks process lsw zWorkflowState 1 amp zTaskId 4581 amp zResetContext true amp coachDebugTrace none  gt    I have tried by below code but it is not working   driver switchTo   frame driver findElement By tagName  iframe

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You also can use src to switch to frame  here is what you can use   driver switchTo   frame driver findElement By xpath     iframe  src  https   tssstrpms501 corp trelleborg com 12001 teamworks process lsw zWorkflowState 1 amp zTaskId 4581 amp zResetContext true amp coachDebugTrace none

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I struggled with this for a while  a particularly frustrating website had several nested frames throughout the site  I couldn t find any way to identify the frames- no name  id  xpath  css selector- nothing   Eventually I realised that frames are numbered with the top level being frame 0  the second frame 1  etc   As I still didn t know which frame the element I needed was sitting in  I wrote a for loop to start from 0 and cycle to 50 continually moving to the next frame and attempting to access my required element  if it failed I got it to print a message and continue   Spent too much time on this problem for such a simple solution - -  driver switch to default content   for x in range 50       try          driver switch to frame x          driver find element by xpath       id  23     click           driver find element by xpath   html body form table tbody tr 1  td ul li 49  a   click       except          print  It s not     x          continue

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Make sure you switch to default content before switching to frame   driver switchTo   defaultContent    driver switchTo   frame x     x can be the frame number or you can do a driver findlement and use any of the options you have available eg  driver findElementByName  Name

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There are three ways to switch to the frame  1 Can use id 2 Can use name of the frame 3 Can use WebElement of the frame   2- driver switchTo   frame  name of the frame

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You can use Css Selector or Xpath   Approach 1   CSS Selector  driver switchTo   frame driver findElement By cssSelector  iframe title  Fill Quote          Approach 2   Xpath  driver switchTo   frame driver findElement By xpath    iframe  title  Fill Quote          https   seleniumatfingertips wordpress com 2016 07 05 handling-frames-in-selenium-webdriver-with-java

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driver switchTo   frame   has multiple overloads    driver switchTo   frame name or id  Here your iframe doesn t have id or name  so not for you  driver switchTo   frame index  This is the last option to choose  because using index is not stable enough as you could imagine  If this is your only iframe in the page  try driver switchTo   frame 0  driver switchTo   frame iframe element  The most common one  You locate your iframe like other elements  then pass it into the method    Here locating it by title attributes seems to be the best   driver switchTo   frame driver findElement By cssSelector  iframe title  Fill Quote           driver switchTo   frame driver findElement By xpath     iframe  title  Fill Quote

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I think I can add something here    Situation I faced   I cannot or not easily use the debug tools or inspection tools like firebug to see which frame I am currently at and want to go to  The XPATH CSS selector etc  that the inspection tool told me doesn t work since the current frame is not the target one  e g  I need to first switch to a sub-frame to be able to access locate the element from XPATH or any other reference    In short  the find element   or find elements   method doesn t apply in my case    Wait Wait  not exactly  unless we use some fazzy search method       use find elements   with contains  id  frame   to filter out the potential frames     e g    driver find elements By XPATH      contains  id  frame        Then use switchTo   to switch to that frame and hopefully the underlying XPATH for your target element can be accessed this time    If you re similar unlucky like me  iteration might need to be done for the found frames and even iterate deeper in more layers    e g   This is the piece I use   try      elf1   mydriver find elements By XPATH      contains  id  rame          mydriver switch to frame elf1 1       elf2   mydriver find elements By XPATH      contains  id  rame          mydriver switch to frame elf2 2       len mydriver page source     size of source tell whether I am in the right frame    I try out different switch to frame elf1 x   switch to frame elf2 x   combinations and finally found the wanted element by the XPATH I found from the inspection tool in browser   try      element   WebDriverWait mydriver  10  until          EC presence of element located  By XPATH        id  C4 W16 V17 ZSRV-HOME                     Click the link     element click

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1  goto html view   2  type iframe and find your required frame and count the value and switch to it using  oASelFW driver switchTo   frame 2      if it is first frame then use oASelFW driver switchTo   frame 0      if it is second frame then use oASelFW driver switchTo   frame 1   respectively

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Easiest way of doing this is like this   If its a frame you can right click on the field and if you see the choice of  open frame in a tab  do it   Then take the URL of the frame and that is what you put in your Python script using  driver get  http   blah blah     Then Selenium can find your named element   This saved me hours of trying all the suggestions here which was learning about but didn t work   Problem with mine was it was in a frame   I m using Linux which gives me the right-click option of opening the frame  on its own  in another tab   I don t use Windows so don t know if you would get that option in you right-click menu   Ganzarola

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you can use cssSelector   driver switchTo   frame driver findElement By cssSelector  iframe title  Fill Quote

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