Not able to click in Selenium Webdriver. Getting a NoSuchElementException

Question

I got my code ready in Selenium IDE and exported it to Selenium Webdriver (JUnit 4). My code was working perfectly in Selenium IDE but an issue has arose after my migration to Selenium Webdriver.

The issue is on a click!

In Selenium IDE

Command: Click
Target: id=vdc_div2

In Selenium Webdriver

driver.findElement(By.id("vdc_div2")).click();

All the other clicks in Selenium Webdriver are working apart this. It doesn't find this element and gives a NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element. I have also tried different locators, such as xpath and css.

The html for this is as follows.

<div id="pmc_vdc_items" class="row clearfix pmc-row">
 <div id="vdc_div0" class="pmc-selection-tile-large">
  <div id="vdc_div1" class="pmc-selection-tile-large">
   <div id="vdc_div2" class="pmc-selection-tile-large pmc-selection-tile-large- active">
    <div id="vdc_div3" class="pmc-selection-tile-large">
    </div>

Please help me out.

Answer 1

there will be 2 reasons :

1. Maybe it is trying to click the button before page loads completely in this case you should use wait()
2. Maybe that button is located in iFrame in this case u need to move to iFrame and then click on button

Answer 2

This seems to be the case where you try to find the element (using findElement) before the page completely loaded its content. At that moment, the element might not exist.

Selenium itself already waits for the page to load. But in some cases (JavaScript execution, for example), it doesn't know the page content is fully loaded. So, you need to add robustness to your test by doing an Explicit Wait. Please see: http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp

You need to wait (until a timeout period) for a given expected condition to occur before proceeding.

I am not sure this is your problem, but I hope this helps.