Getting StaleElementReferenceException: Element is no longer attached to the DOM

[anuj garg]

Hello All,

I am getting exception as "Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.StaleElementReferenceException: Element is no longer attached to the DOM" when I tried to find and click on an element on the website named "www.abhibus.com". Please help me out. Below is the code:

driver=new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.get("https://www.abhibus.com");
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
       
        element=driver.findElement(By.id("source"));
        element.sendKeys("ind");
       
        Thread.sleep(2000);
       
        List<WebElement>ls=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//ul[@id='ui-id-1']//li"));
       
        for(WebElement l: ls){
            if(l.getText().equals("Indore"))
                l.click();
           
        }
   
   
   
    element=driver.findElement(By.id("destination"));
    element.sendKeys("pu");
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    List<WebElement>ls1=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//ul[@id='ui-id-2']//li"));
   
    for(WebElement l1: ls1){
        if(l1.getText().equals("Pune"))
            l1.click();
       
    }
   
    driver.findElement(By.id("datepicker1")).click();
   
    Thread.sleep(2000);
   
    List<WebElement>ls2=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='ui-datepicker-group ui-datepicker-group-first']//table//tbody//tr//td//a"));
     for(WebElement l2:ls2){
         if(l2.getText().equalsIgnoreCase("28")){
             l2.click();
         }
       
     }
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='roundTrip']/a")).click();   // for this line of code I am getting the StaleElementReferenceException
  

[Sonia saini]

You get StaleElementReferences exception when your element is not visible to selenium

Try to grab element first then perform action on it. 

Sudo code:

Grab element 

wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(By.XPath(Your element path));

 

Then perform action on element

element = browser.FindElement(By.XPath(your element path);

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[Mercious]

You might also want to try By.className("icosearch") instead.

[Kaleem Uddin Mohammed Abdul]

The problem is here, their is no break statement in foreach loop. Because of this, the code is trying to get the innertext even their is no date widget is available (after clicking on 28th day). The below code works fine, I have tested in Java in C# :).
_WebDriver=new FirefoxDriver();
        _WebDriver.navigate().to("https://www.abhibus.com");
        _WebDriver.manage().window().maximize();
       
        WebElement element=_WebDriver.findElement(By.id("source"));
        element.sendKeys("ind");
       
        Thread.sleep(2000);
       
        List<WebElement>ls=_WebDriver.findElements(By.xpath("//ul[@id='ui-id-1']//li"));

       
        for(WebElement l: ls){
            if(l.getText().equals("Indore"))
            {
                l.click();

                break;
            }
           
        }
        WebElement Destination=_WebDriver.findElement(By.id("destination"));
        Destination.sendKeys("pu");
        Thread.sleep(2000);
        List<WebElement>ls1=_WebDriver.findElements(By.xpath("//ul[@id='ui-id-2']//li"));

       
        for(WebElement l1: ls1){
            if(l1.getText().equals("Pune"))
            {
                l1.click();

                break;
            }
           
        }
       
        _WebDriver.findElement(By.id("datepicker1")).click();
       
        Thread.sleep(2000);
       
        List<WebElement>ls2=_WebDriver.findElements(By.xpath("//div[@class='ui-datepicker-group ui-datepicker-group-first']//table//tbody//tr//td//a"));

         for(WebElement l2:ls2){
             if(l2.getText().equalsIgnoreCase("28")){
                 l2.click();

                 break;
             }
           
         }
         Thread.sleep(2000);
         _WebDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='roundTrip']/a")).click();

[anuj garg]

@Kaleem Thanks !!  break statement worked for me.But again one question why it is showing StaleElement reference Exception for Date picker only?Why not for source and destination station because for both of these I have also used for each loop to select values,and it is equally possible for these two fields also that the code will try to get the innertext in the autocomplete table for source and destination even if Autocomplete does not exists after selection of any value.Could you please explain why it is not showing StaleElement reference Exception for source and destination?

[Kaleem Uddin Mohammed Abdul]

Development team didn't implemented the code to disable or remove or unselect the autocomplete suggestion for Destination and Source. But they have made disabled and unselectable the Date picker. I have attached the screen shots for your reference.
-Kaleem.

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 9:40:06 AM UTC+5:30, anuj garg wrote:

[anuj garg]

Thanks a lot!!

[Mukesh otwani]

Hi Anuj,

Try below solution that worked for me

http://learn-automation.com/how-to-solve-stale-element-reference-exception-in-selenium-webdriver

On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 9:40:06 AM UTC+5:30, anuj garg wrote: