Unable to find an element by Id, Name or Xpath using the Webdriver of IE for my webpage

[Vikas Krishnamraju]

Hi All,

Could you please help me out with the following situation

used tools and technologies

IE 8
selenium webdriver 2.0
Language used C# in VS2010
copied all the dlls from http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list.
File : "selenium-dotnet-2.16.0.zip "
url = http://www.checkpointworld.com/maf/app/authentication/formLogin

Code used:

IWebDriver multipleBrowsersDriver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
multipleBrowsersDriver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://
www.checkpointworld.com/maf/app/authentication/formLogin");
multipleBrowsersDriver.FindElement(By.Id("uid")).SendKeys("selenium");

The problem I am facing here when i execute the test case using Nunit
is
"TestSeleniumWebDriver.webDriverTest.TestCase1:
OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException : Unable to find element with
id == uid"

But when i use the FireFoxDriver or ChromeDriver drive my test
executes successfully and able to fill in the text box.

I have tried using different ways by name, xpath but unable to work it
out in IE.
I have checked with other sites such as gmail, yahoomail, hotmail
everything was working as expected. I do not why for my site it is not
working as expected.

thanks in advance for any support you provide.

[santosh h s]

After page load you need to wait untill the element is visible

i have tried same with the java for your website it worked for me

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[Phil_Test]

Hi,

You have find a solution about your problem ?

I have the same problem

Phil

[Alex]

2 things can cause that.

1) the element has different id's/xpath/css in ie8 (common thing for different web browsers to behave differently and have a different looking DOM)
2) like the person above said make sure you wait for the element to be displayed and/or enabled otherwise the webdriver won't find it.

On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 1:44:19 PM UTC+2, den2005 wrote:

Hi,

  I tried using ChromeDriver and FirefoxDriver and no problem encountered, when I used InternetExplorerDriver I am getting "unable to find element with id "gbqfq" in www.google.com page, then I found this page (_http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=3032) which reports same problem I have except I am using Windows 7 64-bit IE 9 and C#. Does anyone has a solution or a workaround ?

Thanks in advanced.

Dennis

[Paras Jain]

Hi,

Same error occurred with IE 10.
I am using Win 7.

Thanks in advanced..