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Purendra Agrawal
Purendra Agrawal

Reputation: 558

Element not found error in Selenium Webdriver

HTML Code :

 <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">  
    <tr class="messageStackError">
    <td class="messageStackError">
    <img src="images/icons/error.gif" border="0" alt="Error" title=" Error  "/>&nbsp;
    Error: Invalid administrator login attempt.</td>
    </tr>
 </table>

Selenium Code :

String message =driver.findElement(By.className("messageStackError")).getText();

I am getting the run time error in Selenium webdriver

Unable to locate element: .messageStackError (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information) Command duration or timeout: 19 milliseconds For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html

Upvotes: 3

Views: 27299

Answers (3)

Sanidhya Vijaivargia
Sanidhya Vijaivargia

Reputation: 159

The element was not loaded in the DOM by the time you requested the text from it.

To delay it you can use

time.sleep(x) 
# x is in seconds

in Python, this will let the element load in the DOM.

For more info you can refer to this

https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/waits.html

Upvotes: 0

Aditya vikram Shekhawat
Aditya vikram Shekhawat

Reputation: 601

We can also solve this with the help of exception handling and infinite loop:

Here's the code in python -

while 1:
    try:
        driver.find_element_by_class_name("class-name")
        break
    except:
        continue

If there is no exception then the loop will break or else if there's any exception like the element is not found, then the loop will be continued till the element is founded.

Upvotes: 0

Saurabh Gaur
Saurabh Gaur

Reputation: 23805

Actually this is the timing issue, when you're going to find it would not be present at that time on DOM, so you should try using WebDriverWait to wait until this element could be present as below :-

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement el = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.className("messageStackError")));
el.getText()

Note :- Make sure before finding the element that it is not inside any frame or iframe. If it is inside then you need to switch that frame or iframe before finding element as driver.switchTo().frame("frame id or name");

Upvotes: 6

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