How to avoid “StaleElementReferenceException” in Selenium?

Question

I\'m implementing a lot of Selenium tests using Java. Sometimes, my tests fail due to a StaleElementReferenceException. Could you suggest some approaches to mak

Answer 1

Maybe it was added more recently, but other answers fail to mention Selenium's implicit wait feature, which does all the above for you, and is built into Selenium.

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10,TimeUnit.SECONDS);

This will retry findElement() calls until the element has been found, or for 10 seconds.

Source - http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp