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Jessica
Jessica

Reputation: 2051

Selenium throws NoSuchElementException even with explicit wait

I am trying to automate some web testing with Selenium. I have written a method that logs into the website (see LoginToSite below).

public async Task<bool> CanUserLogin()
{
    var driver = new FirefoxDriver(_config["driverPath"]);

    LoginToSite(driver);

    //unrelated stuff, removed for brevity
}

public void LoginToSite(IWebDriver driver)
{
    driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(_config["siteUrl"]);

    var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
    var result = wait.Until(x => x.FindElement(By.Name("name")));
    Console.WriteLine(result.Size);
}

Selenium throws this exception when I try to use x => x.FindElement(By.Name("name")):

OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: *[name ="name"]
   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.UnpackAndThrowOnError(Response errorResponse)
   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Execute(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)
   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.FindElement(String mechanism, String value)
   at OpenQA.Selenium.By.<>c__DisplayClass24_0.<Name>b__0(ISearchContext context)
   at OpenQA.Selenium.By.FindElement(ISearchContext context)
   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.FindElement(By by)
   at REDACTED
   at OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.DefaultWait`1.Until[TResult](Func`2 condition, CancellationToken token)

I have followed the examples from the selenium documentation on WebDriverWait, and cannot find any other reason why this is failing.

When the web driver is open, I can open the console and type document.getElementsByName("name")[0], which returns the element correctly.

The page loads in under a second, and I am unable to find any other elements (for example, the same code throws the same exception when retrieving an element by ID).

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 388

Answers (1)

Salman Arshad
Salman Arshad

Reputation: 116

Try Using Implicit wait

driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitWait = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 7);

Upvotes: 1

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