Unable to switch back to default frame

Question

I am working on the following scenario.

I have a main web page in which there is an element which opens a dialog box. It is an IFrame and when i use diver.switchTo().frame(1); to access the new popup, i can access that frame. And I'm also able to perform the required activites in that same frame. And when I click on the "OK" button in that frame, the frame gets closed. Once this frame is closed, i'm not able to access any of the elements in my main page. I used the these switch back function calls to go back to the main page:
driver.switchTo().defaultContent() and driver.switchTo().frame(0). Since the frame gets closed i also tried without any switchTo() statements. But none of them gives me control of the main page.

Can somebody suggest solutions for it? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

That's because you should switch back to the original window by saving the window handle in an object. Check the below code:

String windowHandle = driver.getWindowHandle(); // save the original window handle

driver.switchTo().window(windowHandle); // handle the pop up

Answer 2

Hi Shubham, you can switch to a frame using this:

driver.switchTo.frame("Frame_ID");

And to switch back to the default frame, you can use this:

driver.switchTo().defaultContent();