No Such Element Exception usually comes when web driver can’t see the element you are trying to perform an action on. Reason’s can be: your ID or Name or Xpath or CssSelector can be wrong. Your element might be inside an an iframe so that web driver can’t see or detect it. Switch to an … Read more
To suspend the execution of the webdriver for milliseconds you can pass number of seconds or floating point number of seconds as follows: import time time.sleep(1) #sleep for 1 sec time.sleep(0.25) #sleep for 250 milliseconds However while using Selenium and WebDriver for Automation using time.sleep(secs) without any specific condition to achieve defeats the purpose of … Read more
Once you wait for the element and moving forward as you are trying to invoke click() method instead of using presence_of_element_located() method you need to use element_to_be_clickable() as follows : try: myElem = WebDriverWait(self.browser, delay).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH , xpath))) Update As per your counter question in the comments here are the details of the three methods : … Read more
As per the best practices: If your usecase is to validate the presence of any element you need to induce WebDriverWait setting the expected_conditions as presence_of_element_located() which is the expectation for checking that an element is present on the DOM of a page. This does not necessarily mean that the element is visible. So the … Read more