How to locate an element inside this iframe with selenium?

Question

I am tring to access an element inside this iframe:

I tried to use switch_to.frame(0) first, but still can not locate the element inside the frame.

Screenshot of the error:

Answer 1

As the element is within an <iframe> so you have to:

• Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it.

• You can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe[title='To Do Assignments in Connect'][src='https://connect.mheducation.com/paamweb/index.html#/access/home']")))
    

  • Using XPATH:

    WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@title='To Do Assignments in Connect' and @src='https://connect.mheducation.com/paamweb/index.html#/access/home']")))
    

• 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
  

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References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• How can I select a html element no matter what frame it is in in selenium?

Answer 2

You should switch to the frame:

driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_tag_name("iframe"))