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Explicit wait in selenium webdriver

I'm using web driver wait as explicit wait in selenium web driver. But It's not consistent it seems. before mouse over operations, links It's throwing unable to locate element error. Please see the below method and suggest where am I going wrong.
public WebElement waitForElement(String xPathExpression) {
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,30);
WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(driver.findElement(By.xpath(xPathExpression))));
return element;
}

Just a guess, but I might have seen similar behavior on very dynamic pages. I.e the element on the page changes while being evalued.
I'm able to workaround these kind of problems by using FluentWait#ignoring
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,30)
.ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class);

How to clear the default values in the username textfield and enter my value in selenium webdriver

I have tried the following code but it is throwing the exception (ElementNotVisibleException)
FirefoxDriver dr = new FirefoxDriver();
dr.get("http://54.169.235.143/book.html?v=0.03");
System.out.println("First Testcase");
System.out.println(dr.findElement(By.id("user_name")));
dr.findElement(By.id("user_name"));
dr.findElement(By.id("user_name")).click();
dr.findElement(By.id("user_name")).getAttribute("user_name");
dr.findElement(By.id("user_name")).clear();
dr.findElement(By.id("user_name")).sendKeys("student100");
What am I doing wrong and how to fix it?

Actually your page taking time to load so web driver need wait until element gets visible , Below code will solve your issue :
WebDriverWait wait= new WebDriverWait(dr,30);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("user_name")));
dr.findElement(By.id("user_name")).clear();
dr.findElement(By.id("user_name")).sendKeys("test");
wait= new WebDriverWait(dr,30);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("pass_word")));
dr.findElement(By.id("pass_word")).clear();
dr.findElement(By.id("pass_word")).sendKeys("test");
I have just added wait for elements.

n software testing services this can be achieved by many ways some of the options are displayed above remaining are as follow.
Using java script
driver.executeScript("document.getElementByXpath('element').setAttribute('value', 'abc')");
Using action class Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.click(driver.findElement(element) .keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys("a").keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).sendKeys(Keys.BACK_SPACE).build().perform());

Selenium click not always working

I have some tests which click on a tab, however the click is not always performed.
The xpath is correct as most of the times the test works
It is not a timing issue as I ve used thread.sleep() and other methods to ensure that the element is visible before clicking
The test believes that it is performing the click as it is not throwing an ElementNotFoundException or any other exceptions when 'performing' the click. The test fails later on after the click since the tab content would not have changed.
Further Info
I am using Selenium 2.44.0 to implement tests in Java which run on Chrome 44.0.2403.107 m.
Is there something else that I can do or could this be an issue with selenium?

There are several things you can try:
an Explicit elementToBeClickable Wait:
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, 10);
WebElement button = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("myid")));
button.click()
move to element before making a click:
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(button).click().build().perform();
make the click via javascript:
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
js.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", button);

you can go with linkText if the tab name contains any unique string. And make sure your tab is not dynamic. It should be visible in source code(manual source code(ctrl+u)).

The following method work for me
WebElement button = SeleniumTools.findVisibleElement(By.cssSelector("#cssid"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(button).click().build().perform();

I have a similar problem. Tried all solutions from the top answer. Sometimes they work, sometimes don't.
But running code in an infinite loop works always.
For example, we need to click on element-two which is not visible until element-one is clicked.
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, 10);
while (true){
try {
WebElement elementOne =
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("element-one")));
elementOne.click();
WebElement elementTwo =
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("element-two")));
elementTwo.click();
break;
} catch (Exception e){
//log
}
}

I have a similar problem. Here is my solution:
table_button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, insert your xpath)
try:
WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable(table_button)).click()
except WebDriverException as e:
print('failed')
print(e)
Through code above, you can find the error message if your button is not clickable.
For example, my error message is 'nosuchelement' and 'clcik is not clickable', then I got back to check the table_button.accessible_name, found it print a 'null' value, so that means my XPATH is incorrect.

Make Selenium Webdriver Stop Loading the page if the desired element is already loaded?

I am creating a test and having some issues. Here is the scenario. I use Selenium Web driver to fill out a form on Page1 and submit the form by clicking a button. Page2 starts loading... but the problem is, Page2 uses Google Analytics codes, and sometimes it takes forever for the page to stop loading.
Even though the expected element is already present, Selenium web driver does not proceed until the whole web page is fully loaded.
How do I make Selenium to move on to the next task or stop loading external javascript/css if the expected element is already present?
I tried tweaking the following settings but no luck.
driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.manage().timeouts().setScriptTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
TEMPORARY SOLUTION: Scroll below for answer!

Give below approaches a shot.
driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).sendKeys("Keys.ESCAPE");
or
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("return window.stop");
Alternatively, you can also use WebDriverBackedSelenium as shown in the snippet below from Vincent Bouvier.
//When creating a new browser:
WebDriver driver = _initBrowser(); //Just returns firefox WebDriver
WebDriverBackedSelenium backedSelenuium =
new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver,"about:blank");
//This code has to be put where a TimeOut is detected
//I use ExecutorService and Future<?> Object
void onTimeOut()
{
backedSelenuium.runScript("window.stop();");
}
Source: https://sqa.stackexchange.com/a/6355
Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13749867/330325

So, I reported to Selenium about these issues. And the temporary workaround is... messing with Firefox's timeout settings. Basically by default Firefox waits about 250 seconds for each connection before timing you out. You can check about:config for the details. Basically I cranked it down so Firefox doesn't wait too long and Selenium can continue as if the page has already finished loading :P.
Similar config might exist for other browsers. I still think Selenium should let us handle the pagetimeout exception. Make sure you add a star to the bug here: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=6867&sort=-id&colspec=ID%20Stars%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary, so selenium fixes these issues.
FirefoxBinary firefox = new FirefoxBinary(new File("/path/to/firefox.exe"));
FirefoxProfile customProfile = new FirefoxProfile();
customProfile.setAcceptUntrustedCertificates(true);
customProfile.setPreference("network.http.connection-timeout", 10);
customProfile.setPreference("network.http.connection-retry-timeout", 10);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(firefox, customProfile);
driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();

Once you have checked for the element and you know that it is present, you could either navigate to/load a different page (if the next tasks are on a different page) or if the tasks are on the same page (as you anyway do not need the elements that have not yet loaded), you could continue as usual - selenium will identify the elements which have already been loaded. This works for me when I work with feature rich pages.

Instead of using the webdriver click() to submit the form use jsexecutor and do a click. Jsexecutor does not wait for page load and you can with other actions.

As per the above scenario explained i feel its best to use the below wait command in the first page.
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id(>someid>)));
Once the required element is found in the first page next you can proceed to the second page.

As per the above scenario explained i feel its best to use the below wait command in the first page.
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10); WebElement element =
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id(>someid>)));
Once the required element is found in the first page next you can proceed to the second page.

Use explicit/webdriver wait----
WebDriverWait wt=new WebDriverWait(driver, 20);
wt.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.name("abc")));

Mouse clickAndHold() not working properly on Firefox Using Selenium Webdriver

I am using selenium webdriver client 2.39 and Firefox 26.
Mouse click and hold event does not work properly. My code is like
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://startingwithseleniumwebdriver.blogspot.com/2013/12/frmset1.html");
WebElement multiSelectDropDown=driver.findElement(By.name("multiselectdropdown"));
List<WebElement> dropdownlists = multiSelectDropDown.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
Actions builder=new Actions(driver);
builder.clickAndHold(dropdownlists.get(0)).
clickAndHold(dropdownlists.get(6)).click().build();
This code does not give any error but select only one element.
I can bypass this issue using other way but I want to know whay it is not working.

I face the same problem but it select the element from start to last and give some Error like
Cannot perform native interaction: Could not get node for element - cannot interact
I got the solution by this way you can do this for your problem
builder.clickAndHold(dropdownlists.get(0)).moveToElement(dropdownlists.get(6)).release().build().perform();

If you want to select multiple option from your list try this (it will select first 3 elements):
List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//select[#name='multiselectdropdown']/option"));
for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
new Actions(driver).keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).click(elements.get(i)).keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).perform();
}

ButtonUp (or release()) should be the next button-action following a ButtonDown (or clickAndHold()) button-action (see Appium notes for ButtonDown documentation). Your code performs two consecutive clickAndHolds() followed by a click() without performing a release(). It should be something like:
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://startingwithseleniumwebdriver.blogspot.com/2013/12/frmset1.html");
WebElement multiSelectDropDown=driver.findElement(By.name("multiselectdropdown"));
List<WebElement> dropdownlists = multiSelectDropDown.findElements(By.tagName("option"));
Actions builder=new Actions(driver);
builder.clickAndHold(dropdownlists.get(0)).moveTo(dropdownlists.get(6)).release().build();
While the linked documentation is not for Selenium, Appium is built on top of Selenium.