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>
Whenever you encounter
framesetremember you don't need to switch over it to let selenium interact with inside element.Instead do switch to frame itself (Implementing
WebDriverWaitfor more stability):and finally your desired element you can pick :
It not a recommendation to use Absolute xpath switch to relative xpath.