Unable to locate an element using xpath error in selenium-java

Question

This is the code I am trying to execute

public WebDriver createPart() {

    try {
        driver.findElement(By.id(\"username\")).sendKeys(\"502409373\");
          


        

Answer 1

your parentWindowHandler should not be correct, you fetch it at wrong time point.

Try move below code line to the first line in the try block

try {
   String parentWindowHandler = driver.getWindowHandle(); // Store your parent window

Answer 2

Change visibilityOfElementLocated instead of elementToBeClickable. You can directly find the webeelement, and then click on it as shown below:

element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//a[@title='Part Details']")));

Answer 3

Once switched to parent window, try to refresh the page then find the element as given below. It may solve your issue.

    driver.switchTo().window(parentWindowHandler);
    driver.navigate().refresh();

    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(70, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(70, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 60);
    element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//a[@title='Part Details']")));
    element.click();

Answer 4

To invoke click() on the link with text as Part Details you need to induce WebDriverWait and invoke click() as follows :

• linkText :

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.linkText("Part Details"))).click();
  

• cssSelector :

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("a.tablink[title='Part Details']"))).click();
  

• xpath :

  new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//a[@class='tablink' and @title='Part Details']"))).click();