Example on Switch to Parent Frame

Note: You need to create a maven project and you need add Selenium 4.0.0-alpha-3 dependency.

Scenario 

Open URL https://www.quackit.com/html/tags/html_iframe_tag.cfm

print the innerHTML/text of the parent frame.

Print the innerHTML/text of the child frame.

Then again print innerHTML/Text of the Parent frame.

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver; 

import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;

public class parentFrameexp {

     

      public static void main(String[] args) {

           

            WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

            WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();

      driver.get("https://www.quackit.com/html/tags/html_iframe_tag.cfm");

           

            String pageTitle=driver.getTitle();

            System.out.println("Page Title "+pageTitle);

           

            WebElement parentFrame=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//iframe[@name='result4']"));

            driver.switchTo().frame(parentFrame);

            String parentTitle=driver.findElement(By.tagName("title")).getAttribute("innerHTML");

            System.out.println("Parent Frame innerText is "+parentTitle);

            WebElement childFrame=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//iframe[@src='/html/tags/html_iframe_tag_example.cfm']"));

            driver.switchTo().frame(childFrame);

           

            String childText=driver.findElement(By.tagName("a")).getText();

            System.out.println("child Frame innerText "+childText);

           

            driver.switchTo().parentFrame();

      parentTitle=driver.findElement(By.tagName("title")).getAttribute("innerHTML");

            System.out.println("Parent Frame innerText is "+parentTitle);

           

      }

}

  

In Selenium 3 If you want to access parent frame first you have to switch to default frame means main webpage then you have to switch to parent , but in selenium 4 directly you can switch over to parent frame without going to default frame.