C# FindElement By.Id or XPath both doesn't find element in simple html page

FVA

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Oct 12, 2016, 10:42:32 PM10/12/16

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Hi,

I have been trying different things to get this Selenium to work but no luck.

I created a new WPF project and downloaded the Selenium Nugget packages V2.53.1 Support and WebDriver.

This is the code I use:

IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver("C:\\Program Files\\SeleniumWebPagetester");

driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("D:\\test.html");

var src = driver.PageSource; //showes the html page -> works

var test = driver.FindElement(By.Id("aspnetForm")); //An unhandled exception of type 'OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException' occurred in WebDriver.dll

var testy = driver.FindElement(By.Id("aspnetForm"), 30); //'OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException'

var tst = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[@id=\"lx-home\"]"), 30); //'OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException'

driver.Quit();

The web page:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

<div class="bighead crb">LEAD DELIVERY MADE EASY</div>

</div>

</section>

</form>

</body>

</html>

Things I tried:

The timer, I waited 30 seconds before it starts looking for the ID to be sure the page is loaded -> No element exception

PageSource, I checked if the html page was loaded correctly. The full page gets correcty loaded, no issue here imo.

Xpath, also doesn't find any id or class.

Xpath gives the correct element when I use the HTMLWeb Class -> Xpath WORKS

string Url = "D:\\test.html";

HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();

HtmlDocument doc = web.Load(Url);

var element = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//*[@id=\"lx-home\"]"); //WORKS

What am I doing wrong here?

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Jim Evans

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Oct 13, 2016, 2:03:48 AM10/13/16

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You're attempting to load the HTML file directly from your hard drive, without using a web server. The IE driver does not support this. Use a web server to host the file.

FVA

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Oct 13, 2016, 3:15:57 AM10/13/16

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I tried Google.com and I get the NoSuckWindowExeption on driver.PageSource.

driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.google.com");

FVA

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Oct 13, 2016, 4:49:14 AM10/13/16

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Using Chrome, hosted html file and moving the driver out of program files did the trick.

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