Selenium webdriver throwing timeout exception

Question

I am new to Selenium.

My issue is that I'm trying to click an element but Selenium is throwing a timeout exception, even if I increase the timeout value.

Do I need to use xpath instead of id?

The HTML Code is:

My code looks like this

 void searchquotation() throws TimeoutException {
    try {
          WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 15);
          WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.name("SearchButton")));
          element.click();
       }
    catch(TimeoutException e) {
         System.out.println("Timeout occured");
       }

Am I doing anything wrong?

Please ensure first at browser console using this javascript document.getElementsByName('SearchButton') you are getting this button or not? — Saurabh Gaur, May 19 '16 at 12:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 19 '16 at 10:56

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The input type here is submit (by looking at your HTML code) so I would strongly advise to try the submit() function of Selenium.

answered May 19 '16 at 10:56

Anand

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 29 '18 at 06:20

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Instead of By.name, you should use By.id instead. Therefore, use either of these:

By.Id("SearchButton")
By.CssSelector("input#SearchButton")
By.Xpath("//input[@id='SearchButton']")

Note: syntax could be wrong, please adjust depending on your programming language

edited Oct 29 '18 at 06:20

Saikat

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answered Jul 25 '16 at 01:03

kurakura88

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered May 19 '16 at 11:20

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    try below code, even timeout exception occurs, it will try 4 time to click on it. assuming locator is correct By.name("SearchButton")

    public void searchquotation()
    int count=0;
    while(count<4)
    {
     try { 
    WebElement x = driver.findElement(By.name("SearchButton")));
    WebDriverWait element=new WebDriverWait(driver,15);
    element.until (ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.name("SearchButton"))); 
    x.click(); 
count=count+4;
    } 
    catch(TimeoutException e) { 
    count=count+1;
    System.out.println("Timeout occured");
    continue;
    }
    }

answered May 19 '16 at 11:20

Manjunatha.N

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got it. The element is enclosed in a table Is there any different way to access an element wrapped in td Below is the HTML code http://i.stack.imgur.com/WxJYp.jpg – Manish B May 21 '16 at 09:02
Any answers from experts – Manish B May 22 '16 at 09:56

Selenium webdriver throwing timeout exception

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