After you clicked loginenter button, some wait should be added to reload page. It will provide small delay which is helpful for SeleniumDriver to identify element. I would like to suggest you to add some condition to wait next element. Please try below code snippet
WebElement myDynamicElement =
(new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("usrUTils")));
Answer from Yursev on Stack ExchangeAfter you clicked loginenter button, some wait should be added to reload page. It will provide small delay which is helpful for SeleniumDriver to identify element. I would like to suggest you to add some condition to wait next element. Please try below code snippet
WebElement myDynamicElement =
(new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("usrUTils")));
You should wait for page load after click on button,so for that write below code :
WebElement element;
Webdriver driver;
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 100);
element= wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("usrUtils")));
Selenium always gives org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: - Stack Overflow
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As Yuvaraj HK has mentioned ,using implicit wait just once in your code would be enough.It'l implicitly wait for every element that you try to find in your code.
chrome.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
But try to keep implicit wait time as low as possible, because this might increase your code execution time..
In some cases the element might take more than 30 seconds to be visible, Explicit wait can be used in these kind of situations.
WebDriverWait some_element = new WebDriverWait(driver,100);
some_element.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("id_of_some_element")));
//do anything you want with some_element
I strongly suggest using cssSelectors over xpath. This article might help.
Even if xpath is used, try using shorter ones. Using an id is not the only way to reach an element. Its parent might have unique class names or other attributes, which you can use to create efficient xpaths or cssSelectors.
I guess your test fail sometimes due to the below statment
chrome.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
Just place the timeout code once in ur begninning of the test and remove all other instances.
chrome.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
You should be using dynamic selectors. http://pragmatictestlabs.com/2018/05/16/mastering-xpath-for-selenium-test-automation/
This is certainly a tough xpath if you're just starting but if you want to click the "Business" button in the header it would be:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//header[@id='header-nav-container'] //div[contains(@class,'NavGrid')] [not(@style='false:unset')]//a[text()='Business']"));
As for all the error messages, I'm not sure why it's throwing them. What's missing actually is the Exception that should be thrown when the findElement method failed. I believe it should be a NoSuchElement Exception.
Can you surround your code with a try/catch block and throw an Exception like so:
try {
//code
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e)
}
EDIT: Actually, it is throwing the NoSuchElementException. I guess Geckodriver throws it in the midst of other log entries. Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: /html[1]/body[1]/div[5]/div[1]/div[1]/header[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/nav[1]/ul[1]/li[3]/a[1]
To extract the text Business you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibilityOfElementLocated() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
cssSelector:System.out.println(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("li[data-section='business']>a[name='business'][data-analytics='header_top-nav']"))).getText());xpath:System.out.println(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//li[@data-section='business']/a[@name='business' and @data-analytics='header_top-nav']"))).getText());
NoSuchElementException
org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException popularly known as NoSuchElementException extends org.openqa.selenium.NotFoundException which is a type of WebDriverException.
NoSuchElementException can be thrown in 2 cases as follows :
When using
WebDriver.findElement(By by)://example : WebElement my_element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//my_xpath"));When using
WebElement.findElement(By by)://example : WebElement my_element = element.findElement(By.xpath("//my_xpath"));
As per the JavaDocs just like any other WebDriverException, NoSuchElementException should contain the following Constant Fields :
Constant Field Type Value
SESSION_ID public static final java.lang.String "Session ID"
e.g. (Session info: chrome=63.0.3239.108)
DRIVER_INFO public static final java.lang.String "Driver info"
e.g. (Driver info: chromedriver=2.34.522940 (1a76f96f66e3ca7b8e57d503b4dd3bccfba87af1),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86)
BASE_SUPPORT_URL protected static final java.lang.String "http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/"
e.g. (For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html)
Reason
The reason for NoSuchElementException can be either of the following :
- The Locator Strategy you have adopted doesn't identifies any element in the HTML DOM.
- The Locator Strategy you have adopted is unable to identify the element as it is not within the browser's Viewport.
- The Locator Strategy you have adopted identifies the element but is invisible due to presence of the attribute style="display: none;".
- The Locator Strategy you have adopted doesn't uniquely identifies the desired element in the HTML DOM and currently finds some other hidden / invisible element.
- The WebElement you are trying to locate is within an
<iframe>tag. - The WebDriver instance is looking out for the WebElement even before the element is present/visibile within the HTML DOM.
Solution
The solution to address NoSuchElementException can be either of the following :
Adopt a Locator Strategy which uniquely identifies the desired WebElement. You can take help of the Developer Tools (Ctrl+Shift+I or F12) and use Element Inspector.
Here you will find a detailed discussion on how to inspect element in selenium3.6 as firebug is not an option any more for FF 56?
Use
executeScript()method to scroll the element in to view as follows :WebElement elem = driver.findElement(By.xpath("element_xpath")); ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", elem);Here you will find a detailed discussion on Scrolling to top of the page in Python using Selenium
Incase element is having the attribute style="display: none;", remove the attribute through
executeScript()method as follows :WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("element_xpath")); ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].removeAttribute('style')", element) element.sendKeys("text_to_send");To check if the element is within an
<iframe>traverse up the HTML to locate the respective<iframe>tag andswitchTo()the desired iframe through either of the following methods :driver.switchTo().frame("frame_name"); driver.switchTo().frame("frame_id"); driver.switchTo().frame(1); // 1 represents frame indexHere you can find a detailed discussion on Is it possible to switch to an element in a frame without using driver.switchTo().frame(“frameName”) in Selenium Webdriver Java?.
If the element is not present/visible in the HTML DOM immediately, induce WebDriverWait with ExpectedConditions set to proper method as follows :
To wait for presenceOfElementLocated :
new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[@class='buttonStyle']//input[@id='originTextField']")));To wait for visibilityOfElementLocated :
new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[@class='buttonStyle']//input[@id='originTextField']")));To wait for elementToBeClickable :
new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//div[@class='buttonStyle']//input[@id='originTextField']")));
Reference
You can find Selenium's python client based relevant discussion in:
- Selenium “selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException” when using Chrome
Your code is correct, I suspect the issue caused the page not complete load when you find the element.
Try add a long sleep before find element, if adding sleep worked, change sleep to wait.
Here is the code, It means waiting 10s if the element isn’t present:
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "originTextField"))
)