Expand a menu inside frame with selenium java
I am trying to expand the option "Applications":
And this is its html:
What I have done until now:
// Wait until presence of navigation frame
element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.xpath("/html/frameset/frameset/frame[1]")));
// switch to navigation frame
driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.name("navigation")));
// Wait until presence of Aplications option
element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div[5]/a")));
// Click to expand Aplicactions options
element.click();
When it step into click I can see it is positioned over the option of Aplications because it is showing the tooltip / title "Aplications" like if we put the mouse over the option and the href of this option downside left javascript:expandCollapse('2');
I know the code is running until here because the other piece of code for login is working.
What I am not sure is the switch to frame because I have looked up for frameset and it shows that we can switch directly to the frame.
I am new, I apologize if this is messy. If something is missing to find the error, tell me to edit the post.
Thanks in advance.
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<link href="" rel="styleSheet" type="text/css">
<title></title>
</head>
<frameset name="ISCmain" rows="35,*" frameborder="1" border="1" resize="yes">
<frame title="Header mark message" src="" name="header"
noresize="" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<frameset cols="25%,*" resize="yes">
<frame title="Navigation mark" src="" name="navigation"
style="border-right: 1px solid #d7d7d7;" resize="yes" marginwidth="10" marginheight="10">
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body style="direction:ltr" marginwidth="10" marginheight="10" onload="initAll();" class="navtree"
leftmargin="0" topmargin="0">
<div style="direction:ltr">
<link href="" rel="styleSheet" type="text/css">
<script language="javascript">
</script>
<div class="navBody" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">
<table height="26" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">
<tbody>
<tr height="26" style="border-left: 1px solid #3970B1;background-color:#FFFFFF">
<td class="wpsGpFilter" valign="center" align="left" width="100%"
style="background-image:url(/ibm/console/images/isclite/grpfilter_background.gif);background-repeat: repeat-x;">
<select name="navFilterSelection" id="navFilterSelection" dir="ltr"
onchange="determineAction();">
<option value="allTasks" selected="" label=""></option>
<option value="com.ibm.isclite.MyTaskFilter" label=""></option>
<option value="PF+com.ibm.websphere.product" label="">
</option>
</select>
<noscript>
<input type="submit" title='' value=''>
</noscript>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" colspan="2" class="navtree" style="background-color:#FFFFFF">
<ul class="nav-child" dir="ltr">
<li class="navigation-bullet"><a style="text-decoration:none"
href="/ibm/console/navigation.do?wpageid=com.ibm.isclite.welcomeportlet.layoutElement.A&moduleRef=com.ibm.isclite.ISCAdminPortlet"
target="detail" dir="ltr" title=""></a></li>
</ul>
<div nowrap="" class="main-task" style="margin-left:0.3em;"><a
style="color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"
href="javascript:expandCollapse('0');" title=""><img
src="/ibm/console/images/arrow_collapsed.gif" title="Expand"
alt="Expand" id="I0" border="0" align="absmiddle"></a></div>
<div class="nav-child-container" style="margin-left: 0.3em; display: none;"
id="N0">
<ul class="nav-child" dir="ltr">
<li class="navigation-bullet"><a style="text-decoration:none"
href="/ibm/console/navigatorCmd.do?forwardName=guidedactivity.resource&WSC=true"
target="detail" dir="ltr" title=""></a></li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav-child" dir="ltr">
<li class="navigation-bullet"><a style="text-decoration:none"
href="/ibm/console/navigatorCmd.do?forwardName=guidedactivity.web&WSC=true"
target="detail" dir="ltr" title=""></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div nowrap="" class="main-task" style="margin-left:0.3em;"><a
style="color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"
href="javascript:expandCollapse('1');" title=""><img
src="/ibm/console/images/arrow_collapsed.gif" title="Expand"
alt="Expand" id="I1" border="0" align="absmiddle"></a></div>
<div class="nav-child-container" style="margin-left: 0.3em; display: none;"
id="N1">
<ul class="nav-child" dir="ltr">
<li class="navigation-bullet"><a style="text-decoration:none"
href="/ibm/console/navigatorCmd.do?forwardName=ApplicationServer.content.main&WSC=true"
target="detail" dir="ltr" title=""></a></li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav-child" dir="ltr">
<li class="navigation-bullet"><a style="text-decoration:none"
href="/ibm/console/navigatorCmd.do?forwardName=WebServer.content.main&WSC=true"
target="detail" dir="ltr" title=""></a></li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav-child" dir="ltr">
<li class="navigation-bullet"><a style="text-decoration:none"
href="/ibm/console/com.ibm.ws.console.sib.sibresources.forwardCmd.do?forwardName=SIBMQServer.content.main&WSC=true"
target="detail" dir="ltr" title=""></a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div nowrap="" class="main-task" style="margin-left:0.3em;"><a
style="color:#000000;text-decoration:none;"
href="javascript:expandCollapse('2');" title="Aplications"><img
src="/ibm/console/images/arrow_expanded.gif" title="Expand"
alt="Expand" id="I2" border="0"
align="absmiddle">Aplications</a></div>
<div class="nav-child-container" style="margin-left: 0.3em; display: block;"
id="N2">
<ul class="nav-child" dir="ltr">
<li class="navigation-bullet"><a style="text-decoration:none"
href="/ibm/console/navigatorCmd.do?forwardName=ApplicationDeployment.content.main&WSC=true"
target="detail" dir="ltr" title=""></a>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav-child" dir="ltr">
<li class="navigation-bullet"><a style="text-decoration:none"
href="/ibm/console/com.ibm.ws.console.appmanagement.action.forwardCmd.do?forwardName=appmanagement.upload&WSC=true"
target="detail" dir="ltr" title=""></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<frame title="Content Mark"
src="/ibm/console/navigation.do?wpageid=com.ibm.isclite.welcomeportlet.layoutElement.A&moduleRef=com.ibm.isclite.ISCAdminPortlet"
name="detail" resize="yes" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
</frameset>
</frameset>
<noframes>
...
</noframes>
</html>
Solution
Whenever you encounter frameset remember you don't need to switch over it to let selenium interact with inside element.
Instead do switch to frame itself (Implementing WebDriverWait for more stability):
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(By.name("navigation")));
and finally your desired element you can pick :
element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div[5]/a")));
// Click to expand Aplicactions options
element.click();
It not a recommendation to use Absolute xpath switch to relative xpath.
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