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xpath tested and correct but i recieve the error : no such element: Unable to locate element

My Xpath is correct & no iFrame and I can locate element in Chrome console but my program still fails. I have used explicit wait also.
no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[contains(#ng-click,'authenticationCtrl.onSubmitMage()')]"}
i tested my xpath with Try xpath and it works but when i compile my code i still recieve the error
the page Object :
package com.orange.pageObject;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.CacheLookup;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.FindBy;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.PageFactory;
public class MageReferentiel {
WebDriver webdriver;
public MageReferentiel(WebDriver rwebDriver) {
webdriver = rwebDriver;
PageFactory.initElements(webdriver, this);
}
#FindBy(xpath = "//*[contains(#ng-click,'authenticationCtrl.onSubmitMage()')]")
#CacheLookup
WebElement connexion;
public void clickConnexion() {
connexion.click();
}
The step definition :
#When("l utilisateur choisi le referentiel")
public void l_utilisateur_choisi_le_referentiel() throws Exception {
mr.clickConnexion();
Thread.sleep(3000);
}
im looking to click in button
thanks

I agree with #Prophet, it could be because of some JS call the button, //*[contains(#ng-click,'authenticationCtrl.onSubmitMage()')] changing it's state to some other state. so what we can do about is that, to try with different locator.
such as :
//button[#translate ='LOGIN']
and see if that works, even if it doesn't try changing it to css.

Since ng elements are going very well with Protractor (Angular), better to use in Protractor in that case, so it suppose to be something like element(by.click('authenticationCtrl.onSubmitMage').click();

I guess the ng-click attribute value is dynamically updated on the page, so when you trying to access that element this element is changed, not having it's initial state.
Instead of locator you are using try this XPath:
//button[contains(text(),'Connexion')]
or this
//button[#translate='LOGIN']
The second element with this locator will be
(//button[#translate='LOGIN'])[2]

Looks like the element is not rendering on time. Try using explicit wait. Following gif shows how it is done using Cucumber:
https://nocodebdd.live/waitime-cucumber
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https://nocodebdd.live/waittime-nocodebdd
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The default wait strategy in selenium is just that the page is loaded.
You've got an angular page so after your page is loaded there is a short delay while the JS runs and the element is finally ready in the DOM - this delay is causing your script to fail.
Check out the selenium docs here for wait strategies .
Your options are:
An explicit wait - This needs to be set per element you need to sync on.
I note you say you've used an explicit wait - but where? - It's not present in the code you shared and it might be that you've used the wrong expected condition.
Try something like this:
WebElement button = new WebDriverWait(rwebDriver, Duration.ofSeconds(10))
.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//*[contains(#ng-click,'authenticationCtrl.onSubmitMage()')]")));
button.click();
Use an implicit wait - you only use this once when you initialise driver and it will wait the specified amount of time for all element interaction.
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
There are other reasons that selenium returns a NoSuchElement but synchronisation is the most common one. Give the wait a go and let me know if it is still giving you trouble.
Through discussion in the comments, the trouble is an iframe
If you google it - there are lots of answers out there.
With frames, you need to identify it, switch to it, do your action(s) then switch back:
//find and switch - update the By.
driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.id("your frame id")));
//actions go here
//back to normal
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();

How to wait for an element to be visible in Selenium newer versions, using Java?

I started learning Selenium lately and i wrote a simple code which uses Selenium 3.2.2, and waits for an email field to load in order to fill it:
WebDriverWait wait=new WebDriverWait(driver,25);
WebElement login = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id=\"Login\"]/div/div/button[1]"));
login.click();
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//*[#id=\"email\"]")));
Ive updated to a new Selenium version and since then I cant get it to work- the last row now resuqires a function, how can i write a function that waits for an web element to be loaded? thanks

Iv found those ExpectedConditions for 'visibility' and 'clickable' are not as reliable as doing something like this:
Wait = new WebDriverWait(getDriver(), 15);
public WebElement waitUntilElementIsReady(By selector)
{
WebElement element = null;
Wait.until(d ->
{
element = d.findElement(selector));
return element.isDisplayed();
});
return getDriver().findElement(selector);
}
This will work in the almost every scenario but there will be times when you are trying to get an element that is not displayed. This may be for some information or to use that element to find another element. I have found this is pretty rare if the application has elements with unique ID's.

element not interactable exception in selenium web automation

In the below code i cannot send password keys in the password field, i tried clicking the field, clearing the field and sending the keys. But now working in any of the method. But its working if i debug and test
public class TestMail {
protected static WebDriver driver;
protected static String result;
#BeforeClass
public static void setup() {
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","D:\\geckodriver.exe");
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
}
#Test
void Testcase1() {
driver.get("http://mail.google.com");
WebElement loginfield = driver.findElement(By.name("Email"));
if(loginfield.isDisplayed()){
loginfield.sendKeys("ragesh#gmail.in");
}
else{
WebElement newloginfield = driver.findElemnt(By.cssSelector("#identifierId"));
newloginfield.sendKeys("ragesh#gmail.in");
// System.out.println("This is new login");
}
driver.findElement(By.name("signIn")).click();
// driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".RveJvd")).click();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
// WebElement pwd = driver.findElement(By.name("Passwd"));
WebElement pwd = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("#Passwd"));
pwd.click();
pwd.clear();
// pwd.sendKeys("123");
if(pwd.isEnabled()){
pwd.sendKeys("123");
}
else{
System.out.println("Not Enabled");
}

Try setting an implicit wait of maybe 10 seconds.
gmail.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
Or set an explicit wait. An explicit waits is code you define to wait for a certain condition to occur before proceeding further in the code. In your case, it is the visibility of the password input field. (Thanks to ainlolcat's comment)
WebDriver gmail= new ChromeDriver();
gmail.get("https://www.gmail.co.in");
gmail.findElement(By.id("Email")).sendKeys("abcd");
gmail.findElement(By.id("next")).click();
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(gmail, 10);
WebElement element = wait.until(
ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("Passwd")));
gmail.findElement(By.id("Passwd")).sendKeys("xyz");
Explanation: The reason selenium can't find the element is because the id of the password input field is initially Passwd-hidden. After you click on the "Next" button, Google first verifies the email address entered and then shows the password input field (by changing the id from Passwd-hidden to Passwd). So, when the password field is still hidden (i.e. Google is still verifying the email id), your webdriver starts searching for the password input field with id Passwd which is still hidden. And hence, an exception is thrown.

"element not interactable" error can mean two things :
a. Element has not properly rendered:
Solution for this is just to use implicit /explicit wait
Implicit wait :
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(50, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
Explicit wait :
WebDriverWait wait=new WebDriverWait(driver, 20);
element1 = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.className("fa-stack-1x")));
b. Element has rendered but it is not in the visible part of the screen:
Solution is just to scroll till the element. Based on the version of Selenium it can be handled in different ways but I will provide a solution that works in all versions :
JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element1);
Suppose all this fails then another way is to again make use of Javascript executor as following :
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element1);
If you still can't click , then it could again mean two things :
1. Iframe
Check the DOM to see if the element you are inspecting lives in any frame. If that is true then you would need to switch to this frame before attempting any operation.
driver.switchTo().frame("a077aa5e"); //switching the frame by ID
System.out.println("********We are switching to the iframe*******");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/a/img")).click();
2. New tab
If a new tab has opened up and the element exists on it then you again need to code something like below to switch to it before attempting operation.
String parent = driver.getWindowHandle();
driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("Continue")).click();
Set<String> s = driver.getWindowHandles();
// Now iterate using Iterator
Iterator<String> I1 = s.iterator();
while (I1.hasNext()) {
String child_window = I1.next();
if (!parent.equals(child_window)) {
driver.switchTo().window(child_window);
element1.click()
}

Please try selecting the password field like this.
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement passwordElement = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("#Passwd")));
passwordElement.click();
passwordElement.clear();
passwordElement.sendKeys("123");

you may also try full xpath, I had a similar issue where I had to click on an element which has a property javascript onclick function. the full xpath method worked and no interactable exception was thrown.

In my case the element that generated the Exception was a button belonging to a form. I replaced
WebElement btnLogin = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("button"));
btnLogin.click();
with
btnLogin.submit();
My environment was chromedriver windows 10

In my case, I'm using python-selenium.
I have two instructions. The second instruction wasn't able to execute.
I put a time.sleep(1) between two instructions and I'm done.
If you want you can change the sleep amount according to your need.

I had the same problem and then figured out the cause. I was trying to type in a span tag instead of an input tag. My XPath was written with a span tag, which was a wrong thing to do. I reviewed the Html for the element and found the problem. All I then did was to find the input tag which happens to be a child element. You can only type in an input field if your XPath is created with an input tagname

I'm going to hedge this answer with this: I know it's crap.. and there's got to be a better way. (See above answers) But I tried all the suggestions here and still got nill. Ended up chasing errors, ripping the code to bits. Then I tried this:
import keyboard
keyboard.press_and_release('tab')
keyboard.press_and_release('tab')
keyboard.press_and_release('tab') #repeat as needed
keyboard.press_and_release('space')
It's pretty insufferable and you've got to make sure that you don't lose focus otherwise you'll just be tabbing and spacing on the wrong thing.
My assumption on why the other methods didn't work for me is that I'm trying to click on something the developers didn't want a bot clicking on. So I'm not clicking on it!

I got this error because I was using a wrong CSS selector with the Selenium WebDriver Node.js function By.css().
You can check if your selector is correct by using it in the web console of your web browser (Ctrl+Shift+K shortcut), with the JavaScript function document.querySelectorAll().

If it's working in the debug, then wait must be the proper solution.
I will suggest to use the explicit wait, as given below:
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(new ChromeDriver(), 5);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("#Passwd")));

I came across this error too. I thought it might have been because the field was not visible. I tried the scroll solution above and although the field became visible in the controlled browser session I still got the exception. The solution I am committing looks similar to below. It looks like the event can bubble to the contained input field and the end result is the Selected property becomes true.
The field appears in my page something like this.
<label>
<input name="generic" type="checkbox" ... >
<label>
The generic working code looks more or less like this:
var checkbox = driver.FindElement(By.Name("generic"), mustBeVisible: false);
checkbox.Selected.Should().BeFalse();
var label = checkbox.FindElement(By.XPath(".."));
label.Click();
checkbox.Selected.Should().BeTrue();
You'll need to translate this to your specific language. I'm using C# and FluentAssertions. This solution worked for me with Chrome 94 and Selenium 3.141.0.

I had to hover over the element first for the sub-elements to appear. I didn't take that into account at first.
WebElement boardMenu = this.driver.findElement(By.linkText(boardTitle));
Actions action = new Actions(this.driver);
action.moveToElement(boardMenu).perform();
Another tip is to check that you are having one element of that DOM. Try using Ctrl+F when inspecting the web page and check your xpath there; it should return one element if you are going with the findElement method.

Selenium class name not found from the example

I found this selenium automation code on stackoverflow.
I was trying to run the program. It gives an error:
Unable to locate element: {"method":"class name","selector":"gssb_e"}
I inspected some web elements on that page to see if I will find the class name gssb_e. But I did not find any. I want to modify or update the class name but I am not sure what webelement the example is trying access. can you please help.
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
// Go to the Google Suggest home page
driver.get("http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en");
// Enter the query string "Cheese"
WebElement query = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
query.sendKeys("Cheese");
// Sleep until the div we want is visible or 5 seconds is over
long end = System.currentTimeMillis() + 5000;
while (System.currentTimeMillis() < end) {
WebElement resultsDiv = driver.findElement(By.className("gssb_e"));
// If results have been returned, the results are displayed in a drop down.
if (resultsDiv.isDisplayed()) {
break;
}
}

TL;DR: Use better location strategies and explicit waits.
I don't see an element with gssb_e class name when I do the same manually.
Instead, in this intentionally created "mess", I would try sticking to the more reliable things. For instance, if we are trying to wait until the results would appear, I would, for example, explicitly wait for the element with id="search" to become visible:
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeOut);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("search")));
In other words, comparing to the gssb_e class name that you were using, there are so many more reliable, more logical and simpler things on the Google Search Results page that can tell you the results are ready and visible.

Selenium with WebDriver - wait

I have a Selenium test suite in Java, using WebDriver.
I have a generic wait function in place that takes a CSS selector and wait for the element to become present and visible before moving on to assertions, using WebDriverWait. Now, though, I want to have something that waits for all elements of a certain type, that are in the DOM to not be visible anymore, before proceeding. The exact example is that I have a number of images being loaded and I want to wait for their loading spinners to disappear before continuing. Haven't been able to find something that would solve this for me yet, so posting it here.
Any clues?
Thanks!
public void waitForPageToLoad(WebDriver webDriver, String cssToWaitFor) {
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, 20);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector(cssToWaitFor)));
}

Check the invisibilityOfElementLocated expected condition. Reference. From the doc:
invisibilityOfElementLocated
public static ExpectedCondition<java.lang.Boolean> invisibilityOfElementLocated(By locator)
An expectation for checking that an element is either invisible or not present on the DOM.
Parameters:
locator - used to find the element
So you could use it like:
public void waitForInvisibility(WebDriver webDriver, String cssToWaitFor) {
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, 20);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector(cssToWaitFor)));
}
Alternatively you can look into public static ExpectedCondition<java.lang.Boolean> not(ExpectedCondition<?> condition), which by the doc does:
An expectation with the logical opposite condition of the given
condition.