Question

I’m trying to write a test case for Selenium and I’m having a little trouble finding elements. I believe its because my site uses a HTML frame set.

If I open up Firebug, and try to simply select all links:

//a

… I get no results (although the ‘menu’ frame contains about 15+ links).

If I right-click in the menu frame and choose to “Show Only This Frame”, and then select all links in Firebug, I get all 15+ links returned.

This leads me to believe X-Path cannot iterate through elements within a specific frame. Is that true?

When the site is showing all frames, I can select the specific frame:

//frame[@name='menu']

…but trying to drill down to the links starting with that X-Path does not work:

//frame[@name='menu']//a
//frame[@name='menu']@@@//a <-- Special '@@@' syntax I read about somewhere to try.

Any help trying to solve this with X-Paths is appreciated. If a CSS selector will work, I could use some pointers there as well. Thanks!

jg

Answer 1

How about you first select the relevant iframe, and then work with the xpaths within that frame.

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Sample code in Ruby

iframename = @driver.execute_script("return document.getElementById('IDName').getElementsByTagName('iframe')[0].getAttribute('Attributename')")
@driver.switch_to.frame iframename

# then work with the xpaths
@driver.find_element(:xpath, "//section[@id='SomeId']/div").click

this should help, unless I got the question wrong.