Selenium with Python: Send keys to an iframe

Question

I went through a few posts on SO and used the suggested approach of switching to the iframe -

driver.switch_to.frame(driver.find_element_by_id(iFrameID))
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath('HTML/BODY')

However, I get a NoSuchElementException for the find by xpath.

I then added a print (driver.page_source) after switching to the iframe, and saw the following structure -

<HTML dir=ltr><HEAD><LINK rel=stylesheet type=text/css 
href="/_layouts/1033/styles/core.css">
<META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 11.00.9600.18639"></HEAD>
<BODY class=ms-formbody contentEditable=true style="BORDER-TOP: medium none; 
BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium 
none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: white" scroll=yes WebLocale="1033"
BaseElementID="baseTextField" wordWrap="false" RestrictedMode="true">
<DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>

The HTML/BODY structure is definitely present so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong in the find_element_by_xpath. I also tried /HTML/BODY and//HTML/BODY with no luck.

As a workaround, I tried to bring the RTE into focus by clicking the iframe and then using ActionChains

driver.find_element_by_id(iFrameID).click()
actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.send_keys("Lorem Ipsum")
actions.perform()

But got the following error:

NameError: name ActionChains is not defined

Any help would be appreciated

I might be able to help, if you can post your source code :) — Stack
– Stack, Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 17:41
it's obvious that you are missing import, try from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains — Azat Ibrakov
– Azat Ibrakov, Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 18:13
Can you actually copy-paste the HTML of the <iframe> tag you are trying to switch to? The output of driver.page_source has been truncated. Stop relying on that method... it's inconsistent and doesn't do what you think it does. @AzatIbrakov he is trying to switch to an iframe, he first encountered the lib import as you pointed out. But, he still will get the NoSuchElementException error for the driver.find_element_by_id(iFrameID).click() command. — iamdanchiv
– iamdanchiv, Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 18:17
@Sid Can you consider updating the HTML DOM of the iframe you are trying to switch? Do update what is your next step after switching to the iframe. Thanks — undetected Selenium
– undetected Selenium, Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 18:35
@Sid, why are you trying to click the iframe and sent text to ActionChains() instance!? Share what exactly you want to do as for now your logic is quite unclear — Andersson
– Andersson, Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 19:44

leo_ck · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-16 03:46:43Z

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This post is a little old, but I hope my solution is able to help anyone out there that is facing similar issues.

So the way I managed to send keys into an IFrame using Selenium Python is by first using switch_to_frame of iframe after switching to the iframe, we can query the document like new document using driver.find_element

Sample shown below

#Select iFrame
element = driver.find_element_by_id(iFrameID)

#Switch to iFrame
driver.switch_to_frame(element)

#Query document for the ID that you're looking for
queryElement = driver.find_element_by_id(queryID)

#Send key to the ID
queryElement.send_keys("L")

#Switch back to default content from iFrame
driver.switch_to_default_content()

answered Apr 16, 2020 at 3:46

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