I cannot navigate to else part of my selenium code ,always getting failure

Question

Please see my below code:

My if part of code is running successfully but my else part is not working. The code gets skipped and is showing failure.

 if (driver.findElement(By.id("error_explanation")).isDisplayed() == true) {
     driver.findElement(By.id("user_email")).clear();
     driver.findElement(By.id("user_email")).sendKeys("soumya50@toobler.com");
     driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
     driver.findElement(By.id("user_password")).sendKeys("password");
     driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
     driver.findElement(By.id("user_current_password")).sendKeys("password");
     driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
     driver.findElement(By.name("commit")).click();
     driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
     driver.findElement(By.linkText("LOGOUT")).click();
 } else

 {
     driver.findElement(By.linkText("REQUEST A PERMIT")).click();
     driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
 }

Getting error as below:-

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"error_explanation"}

Please describe what is wrong in your else-branch or what kind of help do you need. Thank you. — Leonid Glanz, Oct 05 '15 at 07:34
org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"error_explanation"}... please help me how to over come this — Dona Feble, Oct 05 '15 at 08:58
Possible duplicate of [Selenium WebDriver - Test if element is present](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7991522/selenium-webdriver-test-if-element-is-present) — Louis, Oct 06 '15 at 00:08

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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In Selenium you should not use driver.findElement to check if an element exists or not. Use driver.findElements instead. It returns a list of WebElement. You can then check if the list is empty or not.

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edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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answered Oct 05 '15 at 09:50

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Shubham Jain · Answer 2 · 2015-10-05T10:01:32.440

Use below code :-

1st way:-

public static void main(String[] args) {
    driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.manage().window().maximize();
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(40, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driver.get("URL");
    By element=By.id("error_explanation"));

    Boolean isPresent =isElementPresent(element);

    System.out.println(isPresent);

    if(isPresent==true)
    {
        System.out.println("yes");
    }
    else
    {
        System.out.println("No");
    }

}


public boolean isElementPresent(By locatorKey) {
    try {
        driver.findElement(locatorKey);
        return true;
    } catch (org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException e) {
        return false;
    }
}

2nd way:-

    By element=By.id("error_explanation"));

    Boolean isPresent = driver.findElements(element).size() > 0;

    System.out.println(isPresent);

    if(isPresent==true)
    {
        System.out.println("yes");
    }
    else
    {
        System.out.println("No");
    }

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 05 '15 at 10:24

Create a new function as below,

public boolean findElementById(String id)
{
        try {
        webDriver.findElement(By.id(id));
    } catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
        return false;
    }
    return true;

}

check if condition as below in your code:

 if (findElementById("error_explanation")) {
  .....
 }else {
  .....
 }

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 05 '15 at 23:27

You are getting the error because when the element is not visible... it is apparently not on the page at all. You first need to check to see if the element exists, then see if it's visible.

The proper way to check if an element exists according to the Selenium docs is to use .findElements() and check for an empty List. I combined the .isEmpty() check with the .isDisplayed() check in your existing if. This should work now.

List<WebElement> errorExplanation = driver.findElements(By.id("error_explanation"));
if (!errorExplanation.isEmpty() && errorExplanation.get(0).isDisplayed())
{
    driver.findElement(By.id("user_email")).clear();
    driver.findElement(By.id("user_email")).sendKeys("soumya50@toobler.com");
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driver.findElement(By.id("user_password")).sendKeys("password");
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driver.findElement(By.id("user_current_password")).sendKeys("password");
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driver.findElement(By.name("commit")).click();
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("LOGOUT")).click();
}
else
{
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("REQUEST A PERMIT")).click();
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
}

java.util.List errorExplanation = driver.findElements(By.id("error_explanation")); ::; than kyou :) — Dona Feble, Oct 06 '15 at 05:56

I cannot navigate to else part of my selenium code ,always getting failure

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