Unable to select <div> window using selenium webdriver in python

Question

I clicked on a link which opens a small window/popup/iframe and the popup window has Xpath:

//html/body/div[2]

ie. it has no window_id but in firebug the identifier shows the window as a <div class="some_name"> so I'm assuming it's a popup window; correct me if I'm wrong.

When I use the selectPopup of selenium IDE it works fine in switching from the main window to the popup/new_window but when exporting to webdriver-python it doesn't have that option. So I tried using driver.switch_to_window and switch_to_frame along with the xpath mentioned above but no luck ie. driver.switch_to_frame(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//html/body/div[2]"))

Error thrown : NoSuchElementException and that's because it's not able to select the iframe.

Since it's working fine in Selenium IDE I exported it to python-webdriver which converted the wait_for_element clause to

for i in range(60): try: if self.is_element_present(By.XPATH, "//*[@id='heading']/div[2]/div/div/ul/li[2]/a"): break except: pass time.sleep(1) else: self.fail("time out") which returns the above error

Detailed html: //*[@id='heading']/div[2]/div/div/ul/li[2]/a is the xpath of the element and as html this is what it is <a href="/my_url/test/Home/">Home</a> and in detail: `

<div class="help">
<div class="page-header">
<div id="heading">
<div id="search">
<div class="navbar navbar-fixed-top">
<div class="navbar-inner">
<div class="container">
<ul class="nav">
<li class="active">
<li>
<a href="/my_url/test/Home/">Home</a>
</li>
<li>
<li>
<li>
</ul>
<form class="navbar-form pull-right">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>`

Answer 1

try out this :

new Actions(driver).click(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='pop-up-window']"))).perform();