Finding Element on a webapplication built using frames

Question

I am using Java with Selenium Webdriver. I am currently writing a script to verify a contact has been added to a contact list from a form. The workflow is:

The menu of our application uses Angular js while the rest is a frame.

Once I click on the menu I need "contacts", I then switch to frame, to interact with the objects in the iframe, I click on the list I would like to open, and within the frame, the page loads the the list of contacts. The issue I am having, once the list is loaded, the webdriver no longer can find the elements within the list.

source code:

<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="100%">
 <!--
 HEADER 
 -->
 <tbody>
 <tr></tr>
 <!--
 CONTENT 
 -->
 <tr>
 <td valign="top" height="*">
 <div id="listDetails" style="width: 958px; overflow: auto; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); height: 694px;">
 <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0">
 <!--
 BEGIN HEADER 
 -->
 <tbody>
 <tr style="background: url(../image/msn/table_heading.png) bottom left repeat-x"></tr>
 <!--
 END HEADER 
 -->
 <!--
 BEGIN DATA ROWS 
 -->
 <tr class="rowEven" onmouseout="style.backgroundColor=''" onmouseover="style.backgroundColor='#FFFFCC'" style="">
<td nowrap="" align="left" style=" border-bottom: #DDDDDD dotted 1px; color: #666666; cursor:pointer; padding-right: 10px" onclick="openContact ('l-sf-lead-1f26:0')"></td>

My Code:

 String tableHeader = "//*[@id='listDetails']/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[1]";
 WebElement emailField = driver.findElement(By.id("login"));
 WebElement pwField =driver.findElement(By.id("pw"));
 WebElement loginBtn = driver.findElement(By.id("loginbutton"));
 //assertTrue("checking site title", driver.getTitle().startsWith("Act-On :: Login"));
 //Logging in -> to new ui.
 emailField.sendKeys(aoEmailtomcat8);
 pwField.sendKeys(password);
 loginBtn.click();
 Thread.sleep(1000);
 driver.navigate().to(newUI_URL);
 Thread.sleep(4000);
 //Clicks on Contacts Menu
 driver.findElement(By.xpath(contactsMenu)).click();
 driver.findElement(By.xpath(marketignListMenu)).click();
 driver.switchTo().frame("content");
 Thread.sleep(4000);
 //Clicks on List
 driver.findElement(By.xpath(defaultList)).click();
 Thread.sleep(1000);
 driver.findElement(By.xpath(fistItemList)).click();
 Thread.sleep(3000);
 //Does not locate the element, FAILS!
 driver.findElement(By.xpath(tableHeader));

• Helping Hands: Instead of thread.sleep , please use explicit wait to until element detect.

Answer 1

Please post your frame html code.

Make sure your driver is switching to frame successfully. Is Content your frame name? You can switch to frame using three different ways.

driver.switchTo().frame(<frame name>);
driver.switchTo().frame(<frame index>); // Zero- based index
driver.switchTo().frame(<frame element>); // use driver.findElement method to find the frame first and pass as a parameter

As @Helping Hands said never use Thread.Sleep, use WebDriverWait to wait until page or element loads.