Selenium Webdriver - Stale element exception when clicking on multiple dropdowns while HTML DOM doesn't change

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I tried to automate a scenario, where the condition is that I have to select an option from drop down and then there's another dropown next to it, I have to click one option from next drop to enable to button . I tried with the code but it clicks only the first option,.And showing error as stale Element reference:element is not attached to the page document. Please help. Please let me know if in not very clear.

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Give us any code. How do you select options? Also I don't get your point about button and a list next to it. What does enable what? — Kirhgoph
– Kirhgoph, Commented Jul 12, 2017 at 11:30
When you select Self then only you get the option General, which essentially means the HTML DOM gets changed, which results in StaleElementException — undetected Selenium
– undetected Selenium, Commented Jul 12, 2017 at 11:33
I guess, you are find the element of second drop down before selecting the first dropdown. You have to do the following first select the first dropdown, then find the element to be selected in second dropdown and click — Murthi
– Murthi, Commented Jul 12, 2017 at 12:13
//Select Channel Select oSelectChannel = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("client"))); oSelectChannel.selectByVisibleText("Insurance Test Client"); driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS); 'code' //Select Category Select oSelectCategory = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='category']"))); oSelectCategory.selectByVisibleText("Product Insurance"); — Parveen
– Parveen, Commented Jul 12, 2017 at 12:49

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-19 20:57:24Z

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When you select Insurance Test Client then only you get the option Product Insurance, which essentially means the HTML DOM gets changed, which results in StaleElementException. To avoid that, once we select from the first dropdown, we need to induce some wait for the elements of the second dropdown to render in the HTML DOM. Then we will use Select Class to select an option. Try out the following code block:

//Select Channel 
Select oSelectChannel = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("client"))); 
oSelectChannel.selectByVisibleText("Insurance Test Client"); 

WebDriverWait wait5 = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
wait5.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("xpath_of_a_Category_item")));

//Select Category 
Select oSelectCategory = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='category']"))); 
oSelectCategory.selectByVisibleText("Product Insurance");

edited Jan 19, 2019 at 20:57

answered Jul 12, 2017 at 13:14

undetected Selenium

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Parveen Over a year ago

Thanks @DebanjanB . It worked. I dint think of using wait until condition. Thanks for your help.

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