Java Selenium WebDriver Can't find form field

Question

I'm testing a registration page and I've tried name, xpath, id, class and nothing seems to work.

here is my selenium code

  driver.findElement(By.id("pushMenu")).click();
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Register")).click();
    Thread.sleep(2000);
    WebElement l = driver.findElement(By.name("name"));

and here is the form tag I'm trying to access

<input type="text" name="name" placeholder="">

explicit wait attempt code:

 WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
    WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.name("name")));
    driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys("Testing100");

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"name","selector":"name"} — Taylor Gagne, Jan 11 '16 at 13:44
Check whether it is in iframe, because your locator seems to be correct and it should not throw NoSuchElementException. — Shoaib Mal, Jan 11 '16 at 13:57
I gave explicit wait a try and it still wasn't able to find the form field. — Taylor Gagne, Jan 11 '16 at 14:06
try to replicate this on a public URL and that should be easy to resolve — Mrunal Gosar, Jan 14 '16 at 07:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 11 '16 at 13:39

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in HTML u shared there is no name tag. so try by.linktext("Manager")

answered Jan 11 '16 at 13:39

Nipun Kumar

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Try with Sleenium iDe. what locator value does it suggest. Also check if HTML for register form falls in some iframe, if yes then u need to handle that – Nipun Kumar Jan 11 '16 at 13:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 12 '16 at 07:02

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Please check the time specified in the wait is sufficient for the element to load completely.
OR
Use different locators like cssSelector if name, id(if present) is not working.

CssSelector example
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(input[name='name']));

edited Jan 12 '16 at 07:02

Abhinav Singh Maurya

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answered Jan 12 '16 at 06:53

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 12 '16 at 11:14

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For accessing the form field, use

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='name']"));

answered Jan 12 '16 at 11:14

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 14 '16 at 06:29

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If you are still facing the issue of accessing the element after implicit/explicit wait, then try putting a screenshot before you access the element and see if the element is present on the page or not.

answered Jan 14 '16 at 06:29

Sanchita Mukherjee

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Java Selenium WebDriver Can't find form field

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