09. Selenium | Switch_to

01. Intro

The selenium Webdriver can control the window and iframe using the switch_to method.

 

02. Testcase

 

03. switch_to.window()

You can use the window_handle and switch_to.window method.

▶ The first window handle

window_before = self.driver.window_handles[0]

▶ The second window handle

window_after = self.driver.window_handles[1]

Then execute the switch to window method to move to the newly opened window

self.driver.switch_to.window(window_after)

▶ Test code

self.driver.find_element(By.ID, "openwindow").click()
time.sleep(2)

window_before = self.driver.window_handles[0]
window_after = self.driver.window_handles[1]

# Switch to window and search course
self.driver.switch_to.window(window_after)
searchBox = self.driver.find_element(By.NAME, "course")
searchBox.send_keys("python")
time.sleep(2)
self.driver.close()

# Switch back to the parent handle
self.driver.switch_to.window(window_before)
self.driver.find_element(By.ID, 'name').send_keys("test success")

 

 

04. switch_to.frame

There are three ways to find iframe.

1. Switch to the frame using ID

self.driver.switch_to.frame("courses-iframe")

2. Switch to the frame using name

self.driver.switch_to.frame("iframe-name")

 

3. Switch to the frame using number

self.driver.switch_to.frame(0)

 

How to back to the parent frame

self.driver.switch_to.default_content()

 

▶ Test code

self.driver.execute_script("window.scrollBy(0,1000);")

# Switch to frame using Id
self.driver.switch_to.frame("courses-iframe")
searchBox = self.driver.find_element(By.NAME, "course")
searchBox.send_keys("python")
time.sleep(2)

# Switch back to the parent frame
self.driver.switch_to.default_content()
self.driver.execute_script("window.scrollBy(0,-1000);")
time.sleep(2)

 

05. Result