Selenium Webdriver: Working on Frames

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While automating my web app, i ended up in this peculiar situation.

I was using firepath to assist me in creating Xpath. Well, while scripting, it evaluated my xpaths correctly. But during execution, it was not able to locate the elements!

Rootcause: Application window was divided into 3 parts:

  1. Main window
  2. Frame1
  3. Frame2

While using firebug, I seldom noticed one small drop-down on left top corner of the Firebug window:

capture1

 

While inspecting element, the value in this drop-down automatically was switching to relevant frame. So i didnt had any clue that my web-app was having 2 frames in it.

capture2

So when the script navigated from previous page to the next one (where the page gets divided into 3 sections as mentioned above), script was failing to locate elements since i hadnt asked the driver to switch to 2nd frame.

 

So all i had to do was, write this line of code to overcome the issue

driver.switchTo().frame(1);

And it started working 🙂

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