Can't find an element by name using chrome driver in selenium?

Question

I have my simple selenium program that validate if the value search box in the google is equal to hello world but i got this error:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"name","selector":"q"}....

Here's my complete code

public class SimpleSelenium {

  WebDriver driver = null;

public static void main(String args[]) {

    SimpleSelenium ss = new SimpleSelenium();
    ss.openBrowserInChrome();
    ss.getPage();
    ss.listenForHelloWorld();
    ss.quitPage();

}

private void openBrowserInChrome(){

    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/chromedriver.exe");
    driver = new ChromeDriver();

}

private void quitPage() {

    driver.quit();
}

private void getPage() {
    driver.get("http://www.google.com");

}

private void listenForHelloWorld() {

    WebElement searchField = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
    int count = 1;
    while (count++ < 20) {

        if (searchField.getAttribute("value").equalsIgnoreCase("hello world")) {
            break;
        }
        try {
            Thread.sleep(5000);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}




   }

and why do you expect the attribute `"value"` to hold "Hello World"? — Naman, Sep 26 '17 at 06:36
Possible duplicate of [Selenium webdriver click google search](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18387598/selenium-webdriver-click-google-search) — Naman, Sep 26 '17 at 06:37
when i type hello word to search box of google i want to quit the page thats what i want. — Mr.Aw, Sep 26 '17 at 06:43
Dear first thing by your code I unable to type anything on the Google Search — iamsankalp89, Sep 26 '17 at 06:48
in mozilla it works fine but in google chrome its not working i got the exeception that i mention above..what should i do?am i need to upgrade by google chrome? — Mr.Aw, Sep 26 '17 at 06:54
You want to close? It is not worked in ff too. What u want listenerForHelloWorld functio — iamsankalp89, Sep 26 '17 at 06:55
the function of that method is to validate the value of searchbox in google site using chrome driver..if the value of search box is hello world the page will quit automatically — Mr.Aw, Sep 26 '17 at 06:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '17 at 09:31

Do you wait until the page is ready and element displayed? I've often got this error when the page is still loading. You could add something like

(MochaJS example, pretty much the same API for JAVA tests)

test.it('should check the field existence', function (done) {
  let field_by = By.id(ID_OF_THE_FIELD);
  driver.wait(until.elementLocated(field_by, 
  driver.wait(until.elementIsVisible(driver.findElement(field_by)), TIME_TO_WAIT_MS);
        done();
    });

You wait until the element is visible. If it failed, the timeout of TIME_TO_WAIT_MS will be raised.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 26 '17 at 10:16

The google search bar will never have "hello world" in it because you haven't typed it in?

Also the search field value doesn't seem to update when you type in a search (if you inspect the element using the Console).

If your just learning I would just write a test like this and the click the search button, then confirm the "hello world" text in the search results:

    WebElement searchField = driver.findElement(By.name("q"))
    searchField.sendKeys("Hello World")
    //Add code to click search button
    //Add code to assert results on next page

Also I would completely change your listenForHelloWorld() method and use the built in WebDriver ExpectedConditions:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
                .until(ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElement(searchField, "Hello World"))

Can't find an element by name using chrome driver in selenium?

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