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Website Testing Part II - Automation, Autofill, etc. for Frames
By Brian Pautsch – 8/7/2006 11:39:13 PM. Posted to Thoughts.

Back on 3/9/2005, I published a blog titled Website Testing - Automation, Autofill, etc. (C# WinForms). Since then, dozens of people have downloaded it and used it successfully to build projects with similar technology. Today, "Herman" asked how to populate forms, click buttons, etc. in frames. Of course, frames are a big no no, but they do exist. This blog explains how to do what Herman is asking for.

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The only real difference from the previous blog is lines 5-29. In lines 5-14, I iterate through the frames collection and find the specific frame by name. on line 20, I load that frame into its own IHTMLDocument2 object. And finally, on lines 22-28, I find the controls and manipulate them. That's it!

1//Get the web browser document
2myDoc = new HTMLDocumentClass();
3myDoc = (HTMLDocument) WebBrowser.Document;
4
5//Find the frame named "content"
6FramesCollection myFramesColl = myDoc.frames;
7IHTMLWindow2 myContentFrame = null;
8for (int i = 0; i < myFramesColl.length; i++)
9{
10object refIndex = i;
11	mshtml.IHTMLWindow2 frame = (mshtml.IHTMLWindow2)myFramesColl.item(ref refIndex);
12if (frame.name == "content")
13		myContentFrame = frame;
14}
15
16//Frame found?
17if (myContentFrame != null)
18{
19//Load into IHTMLDocument2 object
20	IHTMLDocument2 myContentFrameDoc = myContentFrame.document;
21
22//Find the textbox
23	HTMLInputElement objTextBox = (HTMLInputElement) 
myContentFrameDoc.all.item("txtEmail", 0);
24	objTextBox.value = txtEmail.Text;
25
26//Click the selected button
27	HTMLInputElement btnSearch = (HTMLInputElement) 
myContentFrameDoc.all.item("cmdJoin", 0);
28	btnSearch.click();
29}