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I am writing a Selenium testcase for a webpage which has multiple frames and WebElements. My goal is to get a specific WebElement by xpath without knowing anything about the iframes before starting the testcase.

What would be the best way to identify the iframe in which the WebElement I am searching for is located?

I created a pseudocode function which might work, but I am not sure if it's the best way:

  1. Create a list with all iFrames found via the html-frame tag
  2. Iterate through every list
  3. set the driver focus to the list element
  4. search for the WebElement I want to have
  5. If WebElement is not null return it

Is there any better way to solve this problem?

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    If there is no unique identifier , thats a good approach you have there. The right thing will be to ask dev team to add unique ID to the frame in which it appears . Else the test would be so brittle
    – PDHide ♦
    May 21, 2020 at 13:25
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    Each iframe holds a separate dom tree. How would you know which element is the proper one if you would have the element in several frames?
    – Alexey R.
    May 21, 2020 at 14:56
  • I would try to make sure that the xpath of the element I am searching for is unique
    – D. Jung
    May 21, 2020 at 15:13

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