Getting Null Pointer Exception while taking input by using Selenium Java

Question

Take a look in below code

newDriver.findElement(By.name("IDToken1")).sendKeys("2018713");

this statement is not working.. coding is fine. But still it fail to take data. Is there any problem on website? exception got,

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException

Please help me out

Possible duplicate of [What is a NullPointerException, and how do I fix it?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/218384/what-is-a-nullpointerexception-and-how-do-i-fix-it) — Filburt, Oct 25 '17 at 06:01
Maybe you are searching by.name and the identification have a IDToken, is the name property correct? you should add more information, e.g. the html code. — j.barrio, Oct 25 '17 at 07:04

undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2017-10-25T16:15:31.807

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A quick solution would be to check the following:

Check if newDriver is the only instance of WebDriver interface that exists within your program when this line of code is executed.
Ensure that newDriver is not initialized locally within a method and simultaneously initialized globally within the Class scope.
As you mentioned in your comment that you are accessing the same WebDriver instance i.e. newDriver you need to write a constructor in that class as :
```
//declare the webDriver instance
WebDriver driver;

//constructor
public method_name(WebDriver newDriver)
{
    this.driver=newDriver;
}
```

edited Oct 25 '17 at 16:15

answered Oct 25 '17 at 07:23

private static WebDriver newDriver; I have declare webdriver only once. – Raj Oct 25 '17 at 11:07
@Raj Are you calling it from any other class? – undetected Selenium Oct 25 '17 at 11:09
Actually I am not able to get that how this problem has occurred. Previously I did not face that type of problem. – Raj Oct 25 '17 at 11:16

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