Selenium C# RemoteWebDriver not finding XPath Elements

Question

I'm using Selenium 2.25.1 API, and I'm trying to be able to find the elements using RemoteWebDriver(). Except when I try, it just fails to find the element. I've tried several different combinations with no luck and have been looking this up for a few days now.

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
IWebElement WaitForPage = wait.Until<IWebElement>((d) =>
{
    return driver.FindElement(By.XPath((String)data));
});

Is my code where it fails. Basically the data variable is an object grabbed from my database. I converted it, and going though the code it comes out perfectly fine. How the difference is, when I used just the browser (ie firefox, IE) it works just fine with no errors. But when I use it with RemoteWebDriver(), it throws InvalidOperationException and throws a popup saying it was unable to find the element. (Server did not provide any stacktrace information).

This is usually what I use

IWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new Uri("http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"), IEcapa);

When that is used, it just fails everytime.

Any ideas? I am completely puzzled. Anything is welcome and thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I would suggest using an implicit wait instead of an WebDriverWait statement.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
IWebElement WaitForPage = driver.FindElement(By.XPath((String)data));

And make sure that the xpath you are getting from the data variable is valid. If possible post an some xpath you get from the database.