Unable to find element in webdriver

Question

I got this exception or error when I rum my script:

"Unable to locate element: *[name='password']"

I have tried with different locators but every time I get the same error.

Here is my script

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
//import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;


public class TestGmail {
    public static void main(String[] args){
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "E:\\geckodriver-v0.16.0-win32\\geckodriver.exe");

        WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

        //System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Program Files\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");

        //WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://accounts.google.com/");
        driver.findElement(By.id("identifierId")).sendKeys("myAddress");
        driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span.RveJvd.snByac")).click();


        driver.findElement(By.name("password")).sendKeys("myPassword");

        driver.findElement(By.className("RveJvd snByac")).click();

        driver.close();
    }


   }

Answer 1

Here is the code block to locate the password field and send text into the password field on the url https://accounts.google.com/

package demo;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class GMAIL_LOGIN_FIREFOX_CSS 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        String url = "https://accounts.google.com/signin";
        driver.get(url);
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS); 
        driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("#identifierId")).sendKeys("your_email");
        driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".ZFr60d.CeoRYc")).click();
        WebElement password = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[class='whsOnd zHQkBf'][type='password']"));
        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 5);
        wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(password));
        password.sendKeys("your_password");
    }
}

Answer 2

I would suggest you to use Explicit wait. Using implicit wait is a bad practice.

You can use below code something like below-

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("someid")));

Above code is in Java.

Answer 3

Try this script it is workig fine:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("https://accounts.google.com/");
driver.findElement(By.id("identifierId")).sendKeys("myAddress");
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("span.RveJvd.snByac")).click();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.findElement(By.name("password")).sendKeys("myPassword");
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@class='RveJvd snByac']")).click();
driver.close();

Answer 4

Use this code line for finding the "password" element and entering the password

Code is as follows:

driver.findElement(By.Xpath("html/body/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/form/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/input")).sendKeys("Your password ")