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Asked: 2026-06-13T20:40:56+00:00

I am trying to locate a tag on a page, but so far finding

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I am trying to locate a tag on a page, but so far finding it by name/id/xpath have not worked. This is what I’ve tried to locate it by xpath:

db = driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/form")

and also 

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//form[@id='formControl']")

Both of these return the error:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: u'Unable to locate element:

It’s as if it can not find the form on the page. Any ideas of how to fix?

Here’s the beginning of the html on the page:

<html>
  <body id="bodyControl" class="PersonalizationPage ContentPage Layout_PageUsesRegions" onunload="closeTimeoutWarningPopupWindow();return true;" onload="return __MasterOnLoad();" onresize="return __MasterOnResize();">
    <form name="formControl" method="post" action="default.wl?appflag=65.14&amp;bhcp=1&amp;MT=208&amp;rs=LAWS2.0&amp;strRecreate=no&amp;sv=Split&amp;transfertoken=10281204301250d0dbca913e4aa6887c7d425f4ede9c&amp;vr=2.0" id="formControl" target="_top">
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  1. Editorial Team

    Try this.

    driver.find_element_by_id("formControl")

    And two things:

    1. Make sure that the form isn’t inside of a frame on the page. If it is, you will have to switch to the frame (it is functionally a different webpage displayed in a box.)
    2. Make sure that you’ve got the right browser window selected, if you’re manipulating multiple windows, you’re going to have to switch to the one you want to search through.
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