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Asked: 2026-06-16T04:02:06+00:00

I am looking at a web page with an overlay that contains a Choose

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I am looking at a web page with an overlay that contains a Choose File/Browse etc button
Below is a snippet from the page

<form name = "form1" method = "post" action = "UploadPhoto.aspx?PhotoUploaderFor=1" id = "form1" enctype = "multipart/form-data">
<div>...</div>
<div class = "popup-form photoUploader">
 <div class = "group data-row">
  <label>...</label>
  <input type ="file" name = "FileUpload1" id = "FileUpload1" class = "browse_file">

Watir has file_fields which can handle file uploads
I’ve tried on the test site (www.tinypic.com) and the controls work fine there

b.file_fields.exists?

will return true

However, on the page i’m looking at with the snippet above, 

 b.file_fields.exists?

returns false

I thought it might be because of the form, so I also tried 

b.form(:name => "form1").file_fields.exists?

Which also returns false
If i try to access the button itself directly, this also returns false

b.element(:xpath => "//input [@name = 'FileUpload1']").exists?

Anyone have any ideas?

EDIT

The form is inside an iframe

<iframe id="Step1_Banner1_Popup_Photo_Photo_Iframe_PhotoUploader" class="photoUploaderFrame" scrolling="no" src="../MSReport3/UserControls/UploadPhoto.aspx?PhotoUploaderFor=1">
#document
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD CHTML 1.0 .....">
  <html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
   <head>...</head>
   <body>
   <code from above goes here>
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  1. Editorial Team

    NOTE: I’m posting the solution from the comments so that (hopefully) this question can be tagged as answered.

    The overlay is within a frame, and it’s necessary to specify the frame via method-chaining. For example:

    b.frame(:id => "Step1_Banner_Popup_Photo_Photo_Iframe_PhotoUploader").file_field.exists?
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