Find element by ID not recognized - Selenium

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I have a question regarding selenium, I try to fill a form, and the id of the input text is: //input[@id='company']. In selenium I get an error about this element not found:

Sun Sep 22 18:13:27 IDT 2019:ERROR: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"//input[@id='company']"}
  (Session info: chrome=76.0.3809.132)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.36.540470 (e522d04694c7ebea4ba8821272dbef4f9b818c91),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64)

This is the page element

This is my method

public static void inputValueById(String input,String id)
    {
        WebElement element = getWebElementByIdWithWaitToBeSeen(id);
        element.click();
        element.clear();
        element.sendKeys(input);
    }

the problem is that selenium not find the element, it finds it in the dev tools as you can see

Have you tried setting the program to wait for 10 seconds? Sometimes elements take their time to load. — jamesfdearborn
– jamesfdearborn, Commented Sep 22, 2019 at 17:23
there might be 2 reasons why it's failing in the script. 1) your script might be trying to locate the element even before the page loaded the element or 2) the element might be present in the iframe. — supputuri
– supputuri, Commented Sep 23, 2019 at 3:05
I try to wait 22 seconds and still not found, even I see the page loaded. getwebElementbyudwithwait - it just wait until the id is seen, and it waits for 22 seconds and still not found the element — Bastian
– Bastian, Commented Sep 23, 2019 at 5:41

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-23 08:29:08Z

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This error message...

Sun Sep 22 18:13:27 IDT 2019:ERROR: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"//input[@id='company']"}
  (Session info: chrome=76.0.3809.132)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.36.540470 (e522d04694c7ebea4ba8821272dbef4f9b818c91),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64)

...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to locate the desired element.

There are a couple of things which you need to take care:

The Locator Strategy which you have used isn't the id, but it's the xpath
Though you are using chrome=76.0 but chromedriver=2.36 is too old.

Solution

For the selector value of //input[@id='company'] change the method as "xpath".
Ensure JDK is upgraded to current levels JDK 8u222.
Ensure Selenium is upgraded to current levels Version 3.141.59.
Ensure ChromeDriver is updated to current ChromeDriver v77.0 level.
Chrome is updated to current Chrome Version 77.0 level. (as per ChromeDriver v77.0 release notes)

answered Sep 23, 2019 at 8:29

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netotz Over a year ago

how do you change the method? I provide an ID, but when debugging I see that the mechanism is "css selector"

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