How to resolve, Stale element exception? if element is no longer attached to the DOM?

Question

I have a question regarding \"Element is no longer attached to the DOM\".

I tried different solutions but they are working intermittent. Please suggest a solution th

Answer 1

Solutions to resolve them:

1. Storing locators to your elements instead of references

driver = webdriver.Firefox();
driver.get("http://www.github.com");
search_input = lambda: driver.find_element_by_name('q');
search_input().send_keys('hello world\n'); 
time.sleep(5);


search_input().send_keys('hello frank\n') // no stale element exception

2. Leverage hooks in the JS libraries used

   # Using Jquery queue to get animation queue length.
    animationQueueIs = """
    return $.queue( $("#%s")[0], "fx").length;
    """ % element_id
    wait_until(lambda: self.driver.execute_script(animationQueueIs)==0)

3. Moving your actions into JavaScript injection

 self.driver.execute_script("$(\"li:contains('Narendra')\").click()");

4. Proactively wait for the element to go stale

  # Wait till the element goes stale, this means the list has updated
  wait_until(lambda: is_element_stale(old_link_reference))

This solution, which worked for me