StaleElementReferenceException on Python Selenium

Question

I am getting the following error while using Selenium in python:

selenium.common.exceptions.StaleElementReferenceException: Message: u\'stale element referen         


        

Answer 1

I Would like to add one more solution here which is worked for me.

I was trying to access the button in the top menu panel on my webpage after refreshing the content area on the same page, Which gave me the following error,

    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.StaleElementReferenceException: Message: The element reference of  is stale; either the element is no longer attached to the DOM, it is not in the current frame context, or the document has been refreshed

Then I started to search for the solution to click the stale element on the web page. After two days of thinking and googling, I got a solution.

To access the stale element on the page, first, we need to focus the mouse over the particular section and perform click option

EditReport1 = driver.find_element_by_id('internalTab1')
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(EditReport1).click(EditReport1).perform()

move_to_element will move the mouse over the stale element which we need to access once we got our control on the element the click operation is successfully performed.

This is worked for me. If anyone finds it working please comment your's as well which will help some other in future.

Thank you