Selenium - How to send keys within an iFrame?

Question

I'm coding a selenium automated bot, and I want to send keys to a input that I got from iFrame, check the code line:

username = bot.find_element_by_xpath("//iframe[@title='Registration form' and @class='top']")

Can you guys help me? I can click on the input, but, on send the keys, it doesn't work and deselect the input field.

Answer 1

You don't send character sequence to the <iframe> element rather you would send character sequence to the <input> element within the <iframe>. As the the desired element is within a <iframe> so you have to:

• Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt.

• Induce WebDriverWait for the desired elementToBeClickable.

• You can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using XPATH:

  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@title='Registration form' and @class='top']")))
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@attribure_name='attribute_value']"))).send_keys("Igor Duca")
  

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  driver.get('https://www.t-online.de/themen/e-mail')
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe.top[title='Registration form']")))
  WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[attribure_name='attribute_value']"))).send_keys("Igor Duca")
  

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
  

You can find a relevant detailed discussion in How to extract all href from a class in Python Selenium?

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References

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• Ways to deal with #document under iframe
• Is it possible to switch to an element in a frame without using driver.switchTo().frame(“frameName”) in Selenium Webdriver Java?