click event is throwing stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document

Question

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.StaleElementReferenceException: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document

if(elements.size()>0) 
{
 for(WebElement str: elements) 
  {

FirstLink.click();

wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,30);
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

//Second link 

driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText("employees on LinkedIn")).click();
Thread.sleep(3000);

//Going to 2 screens back
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("window.history.go(-2)");
 }
}

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 20 '20 at 08:57

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Stale element exception means element is there on page but selenium driver could not interect with that element ,there are 2 ways to resolve this stale element exception

1.Refresh() use this method

2.By using for loop click

answered Jul 20 '20 at 08:57

Justin Lambert

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could you elaborate me more like where do i add refresh() or for loop on my code – Kajol Gupta Jul 20 '20 at 09:32
driver.navigate.refresh(); – Justin Lambert Jul 20 '20 at 09:42
it doesnt work for me – Kajol Gupta Jul 20 '20 at 09:49
can you share your code segment with me ? – Justin Lambert Jul 20 '20 at 09:54

click event is throwing stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document

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