[FIXED] Element not found error in Selenium Webdriver

Issue

HTML Code :

 <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">  
    <tr class="messageStackError">
    <td class="messageStackError">
    <img src="images/icons/error.gif" border="0" alt="Error" title=" Error  "/>&nbsp;
    Error: Invalid administrator login attempt.</td>
    </tr>
 </table>

Selenium Code :

String message =driver.findElement(By.className("messageStackError")).getText();

I am getting the run time error in Selenium webdriver

Unable to locate element: .messageStackError (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information) Command duration or timeout: 19 milliseconds For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html

Solution

Actually this is the timing issue, when you're going to find it would not be present at that time on DOM, so you should try using WebDriverWait to wait until this element could be present as below :-

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement el = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.className("messageStackError")));
el.getText()

Note :- Make sure before finding the element that it is not inside any frame or iframe. If it is inside then you need to switch that frame or iframe before finding element as driver.switchTo().frame("frame id or name");

Answered By - Saurabh Gaur