Selecting textarea of popup

Question

I am trying to select the textbox of a popup:

 <textarea name="reporterRemarks" rows="5" 
onchange="javascript:document.itemActionForm.remarksUpdateFlag.value = 
'Y';document.itemActionForm.updateFlag.value = 'Y';" id="reporterRemarks" 
class="form-control fixed-width-font"></textarea>

I've tried:

webElem <- remDr$findElement("id", "reporterRemarks")
webElem <- remDr$findElement("name", "reporterRemarks")
webElem <- remDr$findElement("xpath", "//*[@id='reporterRemarks']")

All have been unsuccessful.

Error:   Summary: NoSuchElement
     Detail: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.
     class: org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException
     Further Details: run errorDetails method

http://rpubs.com/johndharrison/RSelenium-Basics – Hackerman Mar 06 '18 at 17:52 — Hackerman, Mar 06 '18 at 17:52
I am unable to provide a weblink per security reasons. – Satori Mar 06 '18 at 17:59 — Satori, Mar 06 '18 at 17:59
What is the error message you getting? – Seb Mar 06 '18 at 18:12 — Seb, Mar 06 '18 at 18:12

Satori · Answer 1 · 2018-03-07T15:24:37.883

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The popup was in an iframe therefore, I needed to switch frames in order to find elements that were on that popup.

webElems <- remDr$findElements("css", "iframe")
remDr$switchToFrame(webElems[[1]]
webElem <- remDr$findElement("name",'reporterRemarks')

edited Mar 07 '18 at 15:24

answered Mar 06 '18 at 18:31

Satori

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Selecting textarea of popup

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