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AndrasCsanyi
AndrasCsanyi

Reputation: 4245

Firefox WebDriver does not find the element of the page

I would like to use WebDriver (Firefox) to test my webpage, but I always get this message:

Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//li[@id='something_spicy']"}

But, the really strange thing is that if I copy the element locator "//li[@id='something_spicy']" and paste it into Firefinder then it works. Basically, I ran out of thoughts about what could be the root cause.

I use C# and here is the code:

movedElement = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//li[@id='" + originalOrderOfSportContainers[1] + "']"));

Did I do something wrong? Have I missed something?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 646

Answers (1)

Misha Akovantsev
Misha Akovantsev

Reputation: 1825

  1. provide a snippet of the html code of your page.

  2. There is a chance that element is not there immediately after the page is loaded,
    but appears a bit later as a result of some javascript function execution.
    If this is the case, use explicit wait to wait for element to appear before using it.

Upvotes: 1

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