The InternetExplorerDriver is a standalone server which implements WebDriver's wire protocol.
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Protractor click not working in IE, but works in chrome
i have some div that looks like this
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within protractor we search and find the div element, check that the text matches our expectations, then call click() on that element. The test…
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BrowserStack - Incorrect SendKeys on IE11
I am running a Selenium test on BrowserStack and sendkeys command is not sending the specified text to the input field. I noticed that this issue usually occurs with special characters like @, #, etc.
How do I fix it?

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PowerShell, Selenium, Hide Console Output
I'm using Selenium with PowerShell to launch a dashboard display in Internet Explorer on a large monitor in the office. I initiate it like so:
$seleniumOptions = New-Object…

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Internet Explorer 11 getting stuck randomly while executing tests through IEDriverServer and Selenium
I'm having issues that IE version 11 stuck randomly on some page. the code is working fine because whenever i restart the program sometimes it work but the most annoying will be randomly stuck after click and load the page. is this normal on IE? i…

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How to use Sendkeys() without finding element on web page when element is already focused and waiting for input
I'm trying to write a simple Java based selenium code where I would load a page, give the desired values to username & password and login to web page.
Now once the web page loads it automatically waits for user to enter username i.e username is…

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org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: java.net.ConnectException: Failed to connect to localhost error with IEDriverServer
I have tried IE launch in webdriver as below, I have checked all protected mode settings in security tab of Internet Options, zoom level is 100%, environment variable even set, But not able to launch IE browser in the simple selenium code; Errors…

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Selenium IEDriver not able to view pdf
I have a button in IE, when clicked on the button it opens a new window with a pdf file in it.
while using IE webdriver, pdf is not loaded on the new window, the new window is blank and doesnt have any content.
It works well with Chrome-driver and…

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Sending '@' special character with SendKeys to IE 11
I'm trying to send a special character to a textbox using the SendKeys method in Internet Explorer 11. I didn't have this problem while trying to send special characters in other browsers, but Internet Explorer is sending completely different…

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CreatePlatformSocket() returned an error: An invalid argument was supplied. (0x27t6) Port not available. Exiting... in Selenium Webdriver
I am getting the below errors when running Selenium script. Recently I did setup Selenium grid and started noticing after that. I stopped the Hub and restarted the system also but still having same issue. Also tried with latest Chrome and IE…

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IE11 Selenium WebDriverException: Failed to navigate. (org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException ...IWebBrowser2::Navigate2() failed
I am new to automated testing and, though my Selenium tests are running on Chrome and Firefox, they are not running on IE11. I did all the checks I detail below, but I keep on bumping into this error:
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Failed…

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IE driver 4.0.0 stuck at This is the initial start page for the WebDriver server
I am using Internet Explorer driver 4.0.0(32bit) and selenium updated version 4.1.2when I run the code using Internet Explorer driver 4.0.0 it is stuck at This is the initial start page for the WebDriver server.
even though I check the setting in…

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selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message: Timed out waiting for page to load using IEDriverServer and Internet Explorer through Selenium
Given this code :
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
# import…

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Unable to retrieve page_source using IE11 and Selenium using Python
driver = webdriver.Ie()
driver.implicitly_wait(5)
url = "http://nontax.hebcz.cn"
driver.get(url)
driver.maximize_window()
print("=======")
print(driver.page_source)
print("=======")
This is my code and it print nothing
Selenium 2.53.1
I've added…

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Unable to extract page tittle and page_source using IEDriverServer and Selenium through Python
i have just started selenium coding.
i have python 3.6.6, executing following code on jupyter notebook (with chrome broser)
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Ie("C:\\Python…

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Why does the program always open http://--port=57883/ using IEDriverServer IE through Selenium Python
Code trials:
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.ie.options import Options
url = 'www.google.com'
def Login():
browser = webdriver.Ie(executable_path=r'C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe')
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