CODEWITHSUNDEEP
seleniumelement
user1847225
user1847225

Reputation: 11

Selenium web driver, C#

I am new to selenium and web driver.My question is pretty straight forward. Sorry if you find this question of very basic level. I am using Visual studio 2010 ultimate with selenium 2 and using language C# with browser IE 9.I tried to execute the below simple code.

IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(@"D:\IEDriverServer\");
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.google.com");


System.Console.WriteLine("Page title is: " + driver.Title);

Console.WriteLine(driver.Title);
Console.WriteLine("Waiting to find element");

IWebElement returnedValue = driver.FindElement(By.Name("q"));

Console.WriteLine("Element Found");

Above code throws the Unable to find the element with name==... I thought that it might the browser loading issue. Browser doesnt get fully loaded hence causing it to show the error. Then i added the below code after driver.navigate line to make it wait till the browser fully loads.

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20));
wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.TitleIs("Google"));

Strange thing is that it again ignores this webdriverwait line and jumps directly to "wait.until" line resulting in displaying the element not found error. What should i do. am i missing something here??

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2403

Answers (3)

Anuragh27crony
Anuragh27crony

Reputation: 2957

you are almost right in defining the wait ...but in C# there is different way to enable Webdriver wait till the element is visible till page is loaded.

        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20));
        IWebElement myDynamicElement = wait.Until<IWebElement>((d) =>
        {
            return d.FindElement(By.Name("q"));
        });

Hope this helps...All the best buddy :)

Upvotes: 2

Abhishek_Mishra
Abhishek_Mishra

Reputation: 4621

Change wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.TitleIs("Google"));

to wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.name("q")))

There may be the case that the title of the page had been changed to google but the complete page was not loaded completely

Upvotes: 0

Matti
Matti

Reputation: 106

Try setting an implicit wait with driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));.

According to the Selenium documentation this is by default 0 - that is, if the element is not found immediately, Selenium throws the "Unable to find the element with..." error.

Upvotes: 1

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