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I'm new in Selenium and Java, i'm work in a Automation testing project using selenium (java) , today i have a problem with driver.findElement, the element i want to find was created by javascript, i'm sure about using WebDriverWait to wait to target element to present, even i use thread.sleep and wait for it for about few minutes but webdriver still can not locate that element.

This is my problem, in html/js code i have a button, click this button javascript will create a div and i need use selenium to locate it to make Automatio Testing work.

After click a button, javascript makes a div look like :

<div id="zm-view-frame" class="fade in"><div class="zm-view-header"><div class="zm-view-back"><a onclick="WFLandingpage.closePreview();" id="zm-view-close" class="button" href="javascript:void(0);"><span>Close</span></a></div><div id="zm-view-button"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="WFLandingpage.showDesktop(this)" class="zm-display-desktop"><span>Desktop</span></a><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="WFLandingpage.showTablet(this)" class="zm-display-tablet"><span>Tablet</span></a><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="WFLandingpage.showMobile(this)" class="zm-display-phone"><span>Mobile</span></a><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="WFLandingpage.rotateView()" class="zm-display-rotate"><span>Rotate</span></a></div></div><iframe id="zm-display-iframe" src="page=mvc_landingpages&amp;act=templatepage&amp;preview=1&amp;templateId=landingpage3" style="padding-top: 63px; margin: 0px auto;" scrolling="yes" width="100%" height="609"></iframe></div>

then, in java code i wrote :

this.wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("zm-view-frame")));

Then :

Tester.Browser.findElement(By.id("zm-view-frame")).click();

of course, i have defined this.wait :

public WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(Tester.Browser, 100);

and i get a wait timeout exception

I even use many type of By such as Xpath, css selector, class ... but still no luck.

I also use Selenium IDE for firefox to get element, export it to java code and view in my editor then do the same but it's not work for me again.

i'm really stuck on this, can you give me some help ?

and sorry for my bad english, many thanks !

UPDATE - this is my html structure : html structure

UPDATE - I found the bug and have a solution

Reason : Before above code i have few line of codes to check if a iframe available, the code like : 

this.wait.until(ExpectedConditions.frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(locator));

and i didn't know that code make driver switched to that iframe, so my code above to find element is on wrong place (context).

Solution : so i need to back to defaut context (back to parent), i code like that : 

Tester.Browser.switchTo().defaultContent();

Many thank to @Naveen to remind me to check that case :).

Krishnan Mahadevan
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  • check whether the element you want to find is inside a frame element, i.e., your element is child of an ` – Naveen Kumar R B Dec 27 '16 at 09:16
  • thank @Naveen i have checked and it's on of parent page which place i'm working on – Risk Dec 27 '16 at 09:32
  • As I can see in the HTML, class is defined as `fade in`. Are you sure that the element is displayed on the web page? Or you need to perform some action like (hover etc) in order to display the element? – Naveen Kumar R B Dec 27 '16 at 09:58
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    hi @Naveen thank you for point me to check whether the element stayed, after few debugs i found the reason : that element is on of parent it's true, but before above code i use `this.wait.until(ExpectedConditions.frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(locator));` to check if my other iframe available, i didn't know that it switched to that iframe after that check. to fix this i use `Tester.Browser.switchTo().defaultContent();` to back to parent and everythings work fine now, thank you so much again bro !!! – Risk Dec 27 '16 at 10:10
  • good, you solved the issue. you can post it as an answer so other community members can benefit from it. Once, you switch to one frame, you should always switch to default frame again in order to find the elements. – Naveen Kumar R B Dec 27 '16 at 10:15

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I found the bug and have a solution

Reason : Before above code i have few lines of code to check if a iframe available, the code like below :

this.wait.until(ExpectedConditions.frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt(locator));

and i didn't know that code make driver switched to that iframe, so my code above to find element is on wrong place (context).

Solution : so i need to back to defaut context (back to parent), i code like that :

Tester.Browser.switchTo().defaultContent();

Many thank to @Naveen to remind me to check that case :).

Risk
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