Selenium Webdriver, Javascript link, Unable to locale Element

Question

Hi I am facing this issue, Below is a code which i had generated using Selenium IDE, Basically i am trying to access a career portal of the particular website below and for the Jobposting QA specialist, I was experimenting to auto complete the application using Selenium.

1) I am not able to replicate the code working in webdriver despite adding the code under proper class and importing all the necessary packages. 2) On running it as a TestNG test, i have a failure showing Unable to find Element. 3) The link to the QA specialist is not being detected by the driver either if i give it as identify By.link text or By.xpath. 4) please guide me where i am making mistake. 5) I am a beginer to Selenium

  public class Application {
  private WebDriver driver;
  private String baseUrl;
  private boolean acceptNextAlert = true;
  private StringBuffer verificationErrors = new StringBuffer();

  @Before
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
    driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    baseUrl = "http://www.saymedia.com/";
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  }

  @Test
  public void testApplication() throws Exception {
    driver.get(baseUrl + "/jobs");
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("QA Specialist")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Apply Now")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Send Application")).click();
  }

Answer 1

Your elements are inside of an iframe . Selenium only interacts with elements in the current frame. Any element within a child frame cannot be interacted with until you switch into that frame . You can switch by using switchTo().frame() :

driver.get(baseUrl + "/jobs");
driver.switchTo().frame("jobviteframe");
driver.findElement(By.linkText("QA Specialist")).click();
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Apply Now")).click();
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Send Application")).click();

The arguments for frame() are

• number from 0
• id of the frame
• the webelement rerference of the frame

When done in the iframe , use the following to exit back to the top of the document:

driver.switchTo().defaultContent();