Selenium, pop up form (Python)

Question

I am trying to fill forms on certain webpages. I am having success with most pages however certain ones are giving me trouble.

Some pages have a format where the form is not initially visible on the page itself, instead you need to click a button which then opens a (what seems to be JavaScript) pop up within the page which then needs to be filled.

I have looked around and have seen examples which address how to fill forms which get created in a new pop up window and which get created in alert windows. However I can not seem to find any examples which can solve this particular case.

This is the code I have so far.

     driver = webdriver.Chrome()
     driver.implicitly_wait(10)

     mouse = webdriver.ActionChains(driver)    
     driver.get(url)

     driver.maximize_window()

     value = 'fill form'
     span_xpath = '//span[contains(text(), "' + value + '")]'
     span_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath(span_xpath)
     mouse.move_to_element(span_element).click().perform()
     time.sleep(5)

Everything works till here, the fill form button gets clicked which opens the form in the browser page.

But when the following is execute an error always arises: "no such element: unable to locate element"

     n =driver.find_element_by_id('name')
     n.send_keys('john smith')

I have tried to locate the element by, name, id, xpath and so on but no matter what try, it can not locate any of the form elements.

I would greatly appreciate any help on this matter.

@SaurabhGaur, Yes it is in a iframe. However its an iframe within an iframe. I can access the src of the first iframe using src = driver.find_element_by_id("iframe_id").get_attribute("src") . But the second iframe withiin that iframe does not have an id so i am not sure how to get its src — Mustard Tiger
– Mustard Tiger, Commented Nov 15, 2016 at 0:48
You need to switch first parent iframe before accessing child iframe — Saurabh Gaur
– Saurabh Gaur, Commented Nov 15, 2016 at 2:59
@SaurabhGaur I tried to do: driver.switch_to_frame(driver.find_element_by_name("iframe_name")) and driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/iframe') but i still get the same element not found error — Mustard Tiger
– Mustard Tiger, Commented Nov 15, 2016 at 3:06
@SaurabhGaur This link describes the issue i am having: bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=575 i can switch into the first iframe by doing driver.switch_to_frame(0) but once i switch into the nested iframe by doing driver.switch_to_frame(0) again i get an error — Mustard Tiger
– Mustard Tiger, Commented Nov 15, 2016 at 3:28

Naveen Kumar R B · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-15 05:54:43Z

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First switch using driver.switch_to_frame(0) (parent iFrame) then switch using driver.switch_to_frame(1) (chiled iFrame) and then find the element.

Note: instead of using index you can identify the frame using id, name, xpath etc. like any other Web Element and pass that element to switch_to_frame as an argument. This gives more consistency.

answered Nov 15, 2016 at 5:54

Naveen Kumar R B

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