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Freddy
Freddy

Reputation: 970

Webdriver doesn't find any elements by id or class NoSuchElementException

I'm trying to get data from inside a div of a public website. The Selenium WebDriver doesn't seem to find any elements. I tried to find elements with id and class even with a XPath but still didn't find anything. I can see the html page code when looking at PageSource, this confirms the driver works. What am I doing wrong here? Selenium V2.53.1 // IEDriverServer Win32 v2.53.1

My code:

    IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver("C:\\Program Files\\SeleniumWebPagetester");
    driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("D:\\test.html");
    await Task.Delay(30000);
    var src = driver.PageSource; //shows the html page -> works
    var ds = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//html//body")); //NoSuchElementException
    var test = driver.FindElement(By.Id("aspnetForm")); //An unhandled exception of type 'OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException' occurred in WebDriver.dll
    var testy = driver.FindElement(By.Id("aspnetForm"), 30); //'OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException'
    var tst = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[@id=\"lx-home\"]"), 30); //'OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException'
    driver.Quit();

Simple HTML page:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
    </head>
    <body>
        <form action="#" id="aspnetForm" onsubmit="return false;">
         <section id="lx-home" style="margin-bottom:50px;">
          <div class="bigbanner">
            <div class="splash mc">
              <div class="bighead crb">LEAD DELIVERY MADE EASY</div>
            </div>
          </div>
         </section>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

Side note, my XPath works perfect with HtmlWeb:

    string Url = "D:\\test.html";
    HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();
    HtmlDocument doc = web.Load(Url);
    var element = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//*[@id=\"lx-home\"]"); //WORKS

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1078

Answers (1)

Buaban
Buaban

Reputation: 5137

It seems IE parses the local file in different way, so you cannot access DOM. Here are your options:

  1. Use Chrome instead of IE
  2. Keep using IE, move the file to C:\inetpub\wwwroot then change your code to open URL instead of localfile: driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://localhost/test.html");

Upvotes: 2

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