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Hoyesic
Hoyesic

Reputation: 53

Selenium not finding element

This is the HTML: https://www.dropbox.com/s/aiaw2u4j7dkmui2/Untitled%20picture.png

I don't understand why this code doesn't find the element on the page. The website doesn't use iframes.

@Test
public void Appointments() {
    driver.findElement(By.id("ctl00_Header1_liAppointmentDiary"));
}

this is the error message I get:

FAILED: Appointments
org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"ctl00_Header1_liAppointmentDiary"}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 32745

Answers (5)

Petr Janeček
Petr Janeček

Reputation: 38414

Is this a timing issue? Is the element (or the whole page) AJAX-loaded? It's possible that it's not present on the page when you're trying to look for it, WebDriver is often "too fast".

To solve it, is either implicit or explicit wait.

The Implicit Wait way. Because of the implicit wait set, this will try to wait for the element to appear on the page if it is not present right away (which is the case of asynchronous requests) until it times out and throws as usual:

// Sooner, usually right after your driver instance is created.
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

// Your method, unchanged.
@Test
public void Appointments() {
    ...
    driver.findElement(By.id("ctl00_Header1_liAppointmentDiary")).doSomethingWithIt();
    ...
}

The Explicit Wait way. This will only wait for this one element to be present on the page when looking for it. Using the ExpectedConditions class, you can wait for different things, too - the element to be visible, clickable etc.:

import static org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions.*;

@Test
public void Appointments() {
    ...
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
    wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("ctl00_Header1_liAppointmentDiary")))
        .doSomethingwithIt();
    ...
}

Upvotes: 11

Vinay
Vinay

Reputation: 754

Looking at the code I think the link you are trying to click is under a drop down or you need to mouse over something to see this link. If it is so then you will have make the element visible to perform the action.

Upvotes: 0

Torbir
Torbir

Reputation: 67

try driver.findElement(By.ClassName("MyAppointments"));

If webdriver can't find an element by xpath or id, it is usually a good idea to try all the By options that could work

http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/By.html

Upvotes: 0

M Abbas
M Abbas

Reputation: 6479

There is no element with id="ctl00_Header1_liAppointmentDiary" in your html

driver.findElement(By.id("ctl00_Header1_liAppointmentDiary"));

Should be 

driver.findElement(By.id("Header1_liAppointmentDiary"));

Upvotes: 2

jlordo
jlordo

Reputation: 37813

You're searching for ctl00_Header1_liAppointmentDiary, but there only is Header1_liAppointmentDiary, those are not the same...

ctl00_Header1_liAppointmentDiary != Header1_liAppointmentDiary

Upvotes: 2

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