Element not found for Name

Question

I'm trying to find an element but I receive error element not found My code:

    Dim bot As WebDriver
    
    Set bot = New WebDriver
    bot.Start "chrome"
    bot.Get "http://..."
    bot.FindElementByName("userName").SendKeys "text"
    bot.FindElementByName("password").SendKeys "text"
    bot.FindElementByClass("ButtonLast").Click
    
    bot.FindElementByName("searchField").SendKeys "text"
    
    Stop

HTML:

<input
    class="SearchRoundCorner"
    onblur="searchFieldInnerTxt(this);"
    onfocus="searchFieldInnerTxt(this);"
    style="width: 150px; padding-left: 20px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"
    type="text"
    name="searchField"
    value="search"
    title=""
    onkeypress="if ((window.event &amp;&amp;  window.event.keyCode == 13)|| event.which==13){ document.ListView.pageNo.value=1;document.ListView.saveSelection.value = 0;submitForm(document.ListView);return false; }"
/>

It works well until I get to that line-bot.FindElementByName("searchField").SendKeys "text"

Error:

Error message:Run-Time Error 7 NoSuchElementError Element not found for name=searchfield

Edit your question with the URL, full page source code and pic please. — , Feb 13 '21 at 15:18
Is search button in your dom, or you need to wait some time?.. — Gaj Julije, Feb 13 '21 at 15:58

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 13 '21 at 18:22

The desired element is a dynamic element, so to send a character sequence to the element you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using FindElementByName:

bot.FindElementByName("searchField").SendKeys "text"

Using FindElementByCss:

bot.FindElementByCss("input.SearchRoundCorner[name='searchField'][value='search']").SendKeys "text"

Using FindElementByXPath:

bot.FindElementByXPath("//input[@class='SearchRoundCorner' and @name='searchField'][@value='search']").SendKeys "text"

Element not found for Name

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