In this Selenium article we want to learn about Python Selenium Frames, some times you will see web applications that has frames (inline frames) or frames to embed one HTML document within another. when automating these types of web applications, there will be some challenges for you, Fortunately, Python’s Selenium library provides the best support for handling frames.
What is Frames in Web Development
Frames, including iframes, are used in web development to divide a web page into multiple sections, each containing its own HTML document. Frames are commonly used for embedding ads, videos, or other content within a webpage. From an automation perspective, interacting with elements within frames presents unique challenges as Selenium needs to switch contexts to access elements inside frames.
Handling Frames with Python Selenium
For working with the example of this tutorial you need some requirements, first you should have installed Python in your system, then we need to install Python Selenium and you can use pip for that like this.
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Note: You can download the drivers from here.
Selenium Switching to a Frame by Name or ID
Frames can also be identified by their name or ID attribute. You can switch to a frame by specifying its name or ID.
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from selenium import webdriver # Launch the browser driver = webdriver.Chrome() # Open web page with frames driver.get("https://example.com") # Switch to frame by name driver.switch_to.frame("frame_name") # Perform actions within the frame # ... # Switch back to the main content driver.switch_to.default_content() # Close the browser driver.close() |
Selenium Switching to a Frame by WebElement
If you have a reference to a WebElement that represents a frame, you can switch to that frame directly.
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from selenium import webdriver # Launch the browser driver = webdriver.Chrome() # Open web page with frames driver.get("https://example.com") # Locate frame element frame_element = driver.find_element_by_id("frame_id") # Switch to frame element driver.switch_to.frame(frame_element) # Perform actions within the frame # ... # Switch back to the main content driver.switch_to.default_content() # Close the browser driver.close() |
Python Selenium Nested Frames
If a frame is nested inside another frame, you need to switch between frames sequentially to reach the desired frame.
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from selenium import webdriver # Launch the browser driver = webdriver.Chrome() # Open web page with nested frames driver.get("https://example.com") # Switch to the first frame (outer frame) driver.switch_to.frame("outer_frame") # Switch to the second frame (inner frame) driver.switch_to.frame("inner_frame") # Perform actions within the inner frame # ... # Switch back to the main content driver.switch_to.default_content() # Close the browser driver.close() |
Learn More on Python Selenium
- Python Selenium Web Scraping
- Test Automation with Python Selenium
- Python Selenium WebDriver Tutorial
- Browser Interaction in Python Selenium
- Browser Profiles in Python Selenium
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