Unable to locate element method XPath , Selector

Question

I am not sure why its not able to identify the control holding the value. I tried with Class as well which did not work. Could any one please let me know what should a do.

this is my code

    string locator = string.Format("//*[@class='getlist']/div");
    Random elenumber = new Random();
    int num = elenumber.Next(1, 10);
    IWebElement fav = driver.FindElement(By.XPath(locator + "[" + num + "]" + "/div[@class='col-xs-12 col-md-4 col-sm-4 left-hm-contactus-hm']/div/div[@class='col-md-6 fav_hm']/center/form/input[@name='add']"));
    Console.WriteLine(fav);
    fav.Click();
    Thread.Sleep(1000);

this is the error i'm getting

OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException: 'no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//*[@class='getlist']/div[1]/div[@class='col-xs-12 col-md-4 col-sm-4 left-hm-contactus-hm']/div/div[@class='col-md-6 fav_hm']/center/form/input[@name='add']"}

Try to wait for specific condition before find element: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43203243/how-to-get-webdriver-to-wait-for-page-to-load-c-selenium-project — Yun, Nov 05 '19 at 10:54

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 05 '19 at 14:06

I can think of two possibilities:

The element is located within an iframe, in which you need to access that iframe first with driver.SwitchTo().Frame(frame)
div[@class='col-md-6 fav_hm'] <-- that is a compound class. From what I remember webdriver doesn't handle compound classes. I would advise changing that to div[contains(@class, 'col-md-6') and contains(@class, 'fav_hm')] same with all other compound classes.

Said Yusifli · Answer 2 · 2019-11-06T19:17:51.150

try to use this code.

 String myXpath = "//*[@class='getlist']/div[" + num + "]/div[@class='col-xs-12 col-md-4 col-sm-4 left-hm-contactus-hm']/div/div[@class='col-md-6 fav_hm']/center/form/input[@name='add']";
    IWebElement fav = driver.findElement(By.xpath(myXpath));

and also this is very big and bad xpath. share the web url and web element name which you are trying to use maybe i can give better xpath which will use random numbers from 1 to 10 and each time will gave random element.

Unable to locate element method XPath , Selector

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