Unable to switch to frame which is inside an iframe

Question

I am unable to locate a frame inside an iframe. I have attached the screenshot of the html page.

I am able to locate iframe 'content' by xpath //div[@id='pageContentDiv']//iframe which I verified in chrome and my code is working.

WebElement frame1 = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='pageContentDiv']//iframe"));
        driver.switchTo().frame(frame1);

but unable to locate the frame 'detailsDisplay'.I tried //div[@id='pageContentDiv']//iframe//frame[@name='detailsDisplay'] but unable to locate in chrome. My motive is to locate the 'Part Details' link element inside the 'detailsDisplay' frame. Full code.

public WebDriver createPart() {

try {

    driver.findElement(By.id("username")).sendKeys("502409373");
    driver.findElement(By.id("password")).sendKeys("Magic14Magic");
    driver.findElement(By.id("submitFrmShared")).click();
    //Thread.sleep(10000);
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(70, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(70, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    Select dropCountry = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("txtNewLocation")));
    dropCountry.selectByVisibleText("India");
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@class='btn']/label")).click();
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(70, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(70, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

    //driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@class='ds-coachmark-close']")).click();
    //driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(50, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    //driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(70, TimeUnit.SECONDS);     
    Thread.sleep(10000);
    String parentWindowHandler = driver.getWindowHandle(); // Store your parent window
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//li[@class='icon-button add']/span")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='ENCActions']/a/label")).click();

    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//label[starts-with(text(),'Create Part...')]")).click();
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(70, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(70, TimeUnit.SECONDS);       
    String subWindowHandler = null;     
    Set<String> handles = driver.getWindowHandles(); // get all window handles
    Iterator<String> iterator = handles.iterator();
    while (iterator.hasNext()){
        subWindowHandler = iterator.next();
        System.out.println("k1");
    }
    System.out.println(driver.switchTo().window(subWindowHandler).getTitle());

    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);

    WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@id='Type-Field']//following-sibling::div//div//input"));

    element.click();
    Thread.sleep(3000);
    element.sendKeys(Keys.BACK_SPACE);
    Thread.sleep(3000);

    element.sendKeys("Subassy");
    Thread.sleep(4000);

    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@data-value='Subassy']")).click();

    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[text()='Description']//parent::td//following-sibling::td//textarea")).sendKeys("Testing");
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//option[text()='BioSc-DS-Chemical']//parent::select")).click();
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//option[text()='BioSc-DS-Chemical']")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text()='Done']")).click();
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(70, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(70, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

    System.out.println(driver.switchTo().window(parentWindowHandler).getTitle());

    driver.switchTo().frame("content");

    driver.switchTo().frame("detailsDisplay");
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@title='Part Details']")).click();


} catch (InterruptedException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}
return driver;

}

I am adding 2 screenshots. In the first screenshot I am able to locate the iframe 'content'. In the second screenshot, I am unable to locate the 'detailsDisplay' frame (HTML code is not getting highlighted) by xpath //div[@id='pageContentDiv']//iframe//frame[@name='detailsDisplay']

Is there anything issue with the html tag and document tags in the code ? I am struggling with this issue quite a longtime. Please suggest some solutions.

Answer 1

If your code has nested frames, first switch to the parent frame. Then switch from the parent frame to the inner child frame where you want to locate the element.

Once you switched to the child frame, locate the element which you want.

//a[text()='Part Details'];

Answer 2

1.Use the following code to switch into the frame:

driver.switchTo.frame(content); //now you have switched into the frame

2.Then you need to switch into the details display frame using the below code:

driver.switchTo.frame(detailsDisplay);

3.Then access the part details using the below xpath:

//a[contains(text(), 'Part Details')]

Answer 3

I don't know if it works for python but that was how I solved this problem in Java:

the switchTo().frame() method returns a WebDriver that is focused on the targeted iframe. We can reach the sub Iframe using this webDriver like :

WebDriver subDriver = webDriver.switchTo().frame("iFrameName").switchTo().frame("subIFrameName");