Mystery of StaleElementReferenceException in Selenium WebDriver

[@soumyajit443]

Amazing ! You have made it so clear by showing the exact reason for which the exception appears.

[@kavithaks971]

Your explanation is simply Superb.

[@real_hello_kitty]

Mysteries make QA more interesting 🧐. Like detective stories. 😎

[@RohitSingh-br3xd]

Thanks Naveen . Could you please make video on how we can handle such kind of exception. have faced such questions in interview many times.

[@PradipYogi59]

Awesome man...You r one of the Automation testing legend...Keep it up....n thanks for videos

[@mailtoeanyeany2693]

Naveen, your sessions are informative, but they are long. Requesting you to please squeeze them a bit.
Thanks for your good work.

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[@arpitarjaria2784]

Amazing mystery of staleelement exception thanks Naveen

[@BeautifulLifeKamesh]

Got good clarity by this explanation

[@prabakarm5025]

thanks naveen. My doubt regarding stale element has came to end

[@nagasaimaddula56]

Amazing , clear explanation

[@dheerajsingh6568]

Great Naveen ..... One Q ... Then how can we handle staleElementException in Selenium ?? By using a function defined in Explicit ??

[@mikethomas6323]

One of the best explanation of the solution I found:
ruclips.net/video/yYQrtmNn6Uo/видео.html

[@sriramnagarajanit]

Thank you so much Naveen :), crisp explanation

[@mworld4537]

All your videos have made to show the exact reason

[@ashwinumbarkar6625]

Thank you Naveen.

[@samyapattnaik]

In 7.42 min the action is being performed on the button click. But price getting refreshed in another web element. This is where I m confused. How will I get stale element exception??

[@avinash..7130]

Thanks a lot Naveen.. Learning so much using your tutorial. And please explain us how to handle this exception?.

[@avinash..7130]

We can use Try-Catch block and try to identify the element in try block if the exception is Stale element reference. But I would like to know by using Explicit wait or Fluent Wait as you are mentioned in the video in between.
Thank you..

[@santhoshk8095]

amazing explanation sir..Thank You..

[@neeraj9kumarpathak]

Great video 👍

[@banti000]

Thanks Naveen..
so after every refresh selenium will generate its internal reference Id, which will not match with previous reference Id for all pages including ajax ?

[@naveenautomationlabs]

yes :)

[@banti000]

Naveen AutomationLabs Thank you. :)
can you please explain coverage of ajax, js in selenium. 📺

[@SuperDufferBoy]

Great explanation 👍

[@athilakshmi5379]

Can you please make a video on how to document the test plan and test strategy for a new feature say flight feature creation for make my trip application...( assuming already bus and train booking features are available)

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[@theknowledgejunction19]

Big fan 🙌

[@thaleshbhardwaz]

wow, a deep dive session

[@sauravmahata2401]

great video thanks @naveek

[@arkaimps]

Thanks Naveen for the video and the blog also you have wriiten on this..
Is there any way to handle this error? Does JavaScriptExecutor helps to handle

[@mikethomas6323]

One of the best explanation of the solution I found:
ruclips.net/video/yYQrtmNn6Uo/видео.html

[@aravinda4199]

Iam getting after selecting the drop down value my that page is reloading at the time iam getting stale element exception , how to handle it ??

[@sandeepduve7252]

Very nice explained

[@shaileshchaudhary6621]

thanks, good explanation and can you provide Flipkart payment by using selenium Webdriver

[@roshnray6566]

Thanks Sir for explaining actual reason i.e ID

[@hellosasmitasgreenworld1896]

Hi Naveen i understood this "StaleElementException" but in my project manually we are not refreshing the page. In my project For create user page, we have one Orga Id and Unit Id As per OrgaId unit Id will get load. So after giving OrgaId automatic page will refresh and unit id will show in select drop down. I tried with implicit wait also but still getting "TimeoutException" otherwise "StaleElementException" kindly give me some solution for this error. Thank you.

[@hanumanthak6661]

Thank you so much Naveen for detailed explanation! in this case what kind of exception we get if element is disabled after refresh? is it NoSuchElementException or StaleElementReferenceException?

[@thebolt1806]

Excellent 👍

[@chanduvanam7961]

So, how can we handle this stale element exception?

[@ananyaanu9436]

Thanks Naveen ☺️

[@anilleo18]

Thanks Naveen

[@shrutipatne7884]

How to overcome stale element exception

[@mikethomas6323]

One of the best explanation of the solution I found:
ruclips.net/video/yYQrtmNn6Uo/видео.html

[@54akhilesh]

Thank you so much sir :)

[@naveenautomationlabs]

Most welcome!

[@Shibu11229]

Thanks for the clear explanation with the unique ID.
I have a python selenium script that goes to a page, enters data and then clicks a submit button. Another page loads and the script clicks a search button. This is performed through a loop repeatedly and it works for approximately 10-40 times but it always fails at some seemingly random point with the stale element reference exception. I am searching for the button and clicking it on the very next line.
Is it possible that the unique ID of the element is changing from one line of my code to the next? If so how do I address it?
SearchButton = WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.button-label')))
SearchButton.click()