Selenium webdriver unable to find this one particular element

Question

I tried looking around for a solution, but haven't found any. Webdriver is unable to find this one particular element for some reason.

Here's the html code:

<div id=​"cboxOverlay" style="opacity: 1; cursor: auto; display: none;">​</div>​

And I am using xpath to find this element

By.xpath("//div[@id = 'cboxOverlay' and contains(@style, 'display: none;')]")

When I use firefinder, I can find this element. But it times out and doesnt find the element when I run the code

WebElement cboxOverlayWebElement = driver.findElement(cboxOverlay);

I have also tried using explicit wait to wait till the element is clickable or visible. Also I am using Java.

Could someone help me? Thanks!!

Answer 1

@Sweta

In your html code there is "display: none" means cboxoverlay would not be display. So webdriver also did not get it. Try to fine out what action makes this overlay display and then according write your code.