Handling iFrames using WebDriver

An inline frame is used to embed another document within the current HTML document. It means iframe is actually a webpage within the webpage which have its own DOM for every iframe on the page.

How to switch over the elements in iframes using Web Driver commands:

Basically, we can switch over the elements in frames using 3 ways.

1. By Index
2. By Name or Id
3.  By Web Element

Switch to the frame by index:

Index of the iframe starts with '0'. Suppose if there are 100 frames in page

driver.switchTo().frame(25);  //Switch to 26^th frame

driver.switchTo().frame(51); //Switch to 52^nd  frame

Switch to the frame by Name or ID:

Name and ID are attributes of iframe through which we can switch to it.

driver.switchTo().frame("name of iframe");

driver.switchTo().frame("id of iframe ");

Switch to the frame by Web Element:

driver.switchTo().frame(WebElement);

How to switch back to the Main Frame:

 To move back to the parent frame

driver.switchTo().parentFrame();

            driver.switchTo().defaultContent();