Selenium - after page change cannot find element even it is visible

Question

I am using Selenium and java, after clicking on one button I land on another page and I see the input tag that I am looking in the viewport

after waiting for page to load with

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

in order to get the tag I use the scrollIntoView() and search for the element by id using javascript inside java this way:

js.executeScript("document.getElementById('elementId').scrollIntoView(true);");

but the problem is that document.getElementById('elementId') returns null; I tried it also in the firefox webdriver console with the same result.

If I execute document.getElementById('elementId') on the same page using firefox console but without using Selenium webdriver I get the tag as expected.

Why am I getting this null using Selenium? How to fix it?

Check this. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11736027/webdriver-wait-for-element-using-java — Lumaskcete, Dec 22 '17 at 10:13
then use this before `driver.switchTo().frame("frame/iframe name/id")`..Thanks — Saurabh Gaur, Dec 22 '17 at 10:24

Mahmud Riad · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-22T14:25:32.573

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Please use the below code before the scrollIntoView() code

  driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.tagName("iframe")));

IF any element resides under iframe tag you should switch your driver to iframe using above

If you need to switch your driver in default mode then u need to use below code

 driver.switchTo().defaultContent()

If the element is under modal then use it

driver.switchTo().frame("ModelFrameTitle");

or

driver.switchTo().activeElement()

edited Dec 22 '17 at 14:25

answered Dec 22 '17 at 10:22

Mahmud Riad

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what if the object is a modal instead of an iframe? – eeadev Dec 22 '17 at 14:23
my modal does not have any title and it seems to throw exception if I search the element by class – eeadev Dec 22 '17 at 14:44
Try post a new question with providing html dom. – Mahmud Riad Dec 22 '17 at 17:03

Selenium - after page change cannot find element even it is visible

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