Mystery of StaleElementReferenceException in Selenium WebDriver

If you are a Selenium developer than you would have surely faced this mysterious exception called “StaleElementReferenceException“
Why exactly it occurs?
~~This has been my favorite interview question since last many years and most of the time candidates gets confused it with NoSuchElementException. In case you have never worked on a dynamic ajax based application then there could be a chance that you have never faced it.
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[@soumyajit443]

Amazing ! You have made it so clear by showing the exact reason for which the exception appears.

[@PradipYogi59]

Awesome man...You r one of the Automation testing legend...Keep it up....n thanks for videos

[@hellosasmitasgreenworld1896]

Hi Naveen i understood this "StaleElementException" but in my project manually we are not refreshing the page. In my project For create user page, we have one Orga Id and Unit Id As per OrgaId unit Id will get load. So after giving OrgaId automatic page will refresh and unit id will show in select drop down. I tried with implicit wait also but still getting "TimeoutException" otherwise "StaleElementException" kindly give me some solution for this error. Thank you.

[@ashwinumbarkar6625]

Thank you Naveen.

[@kavithaks971]

Your explanation is simply Superb.

[@santhoshk8095]

amazing explanation sir..Thank You..

[@sriramnagarajanit]

Thank you so much Naveen :), crisp explanation

[@prabakarm5025]

thanks naveen. My doubt regarding stale element has came to end

[@aravinda4199]

Iam getting after selecting the drop down value my that page is reloading at the time iam getting stale element exception , how to handle it ??

[@arpitarjaria2784]

Amazing mystery of staleelement exception thanks Naveen

[@real_hello_kitty]

Mysteries make QA more interesting 🧐. Like detective stories. 😎

[@nagasaimaddula56]

Amazing , clear explanation

[@athilakshmi5379]

Can you please make a video on how to document the test plan and test strategy for a new feature say flight feature creation for make my trip application...( assuming already bus and train booking features are available)

[@samyapattnaik]

In 7.42 min the action is being performed on the button click. But price getting refreshed in another web element. This is where I m confused. How will I get stale element exception??

[@BeautifulLifeKamesh]

Got good clarity by this explanation

[@ananyaanu9436]

Thanks Naveen ☺️

[@sandeepduve7252]

Very nice explained

[@sauravmahata2401]

great video thanks @naveek

[@roshnray6566]

Thanks Sir for explaining actual reason i.e ID

[@anilleo18]

Thanks Naveen

[@SuperDufferBoy]

Great explanation 👍

[@thaleshbhardwaz]

wow, a deep dive session

[@mworld4537]

All your videos have made to show the exact reason

[@RohitSingh-br3xd]

Thanks Naveen . Could you please make video on how we can handle such kind of exception. have faced such questions in interview many times.

[@neeraj9kumarpathak]

Great video 👍

[@chanduvanam7961]

So, how can we handle this stale element exception?

[@thebolt1806]

Excellent 👍

[@hanumanthak6661]

Thank you so much Naveen for detailed explanation! in this case what kind of exception we get if element is disabled after refresh? is it NoSuchElementException or StaleElementReferenceException?

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[@banti000]

Thanks Naveen.. so after every refresh selenium will generate its internal reference Id, which will not match with previous reference Id for all pages including ajax ?

[@naveenautomationlabs]

yes :)

[@banti000]

Naveen AutomationLabs Thank you. :) can you please explain coverage of ajax, js in selenium. 📺

[@meghasandesam]

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[@arkaimps]

Thanks Naveen for the video and the blog also you have wriiten on this.. Is there any way to handle this error? Does JavaScriptExecutor helps to handle

[@mikethomas6323]

One of the best explanation of the solution I found: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4q0o6ejg9Npi9E

[@theknowledgejunction19]

Big fan 🙌

[@shaileshchaudhary6621]

thanks, good explanation and can you provide Flipkart payment by using selenium Webdriver

[@avinash..7130]

Thanks a lot Naveen.. Learning so much using your tutorial. And please explain us how to handle this exception?.

[@avinash..7130]

We can use Try-Catch block and try to identify the element in try block if the exception is Stale element reference. But I would like to know by using Explicit wait or Fluent Wait as you are mentioned in the video in between. Thank you..

[@54akhilesh]

Thank you so much sir :)

[@naveenautomationlabs]

Most welcome!

[@dheerajsingh6568]

Great Naveen ..... One Q ... Then how can we handle staleElementException in Selenium ?? By using a function defined in Explicit ??

[@mikethomas6323]

One of the best explanation of the solution I found: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4q0o6ejg9Npi9E

[@Shibu11229]

Thanks for the clear explanation with the unique ID. I have a python selenium script that goes to a page, enters data and then clicks a submit button. Another page loads and the script clicks a search button. This is performed through a loop repeatedly and it works for approximately 10-40 times but it always fails at some seemingly random point with the stale element reference exception. I am searching for the button and clicking it on the very next line. Is it possible that the unique ID of the element is changing from one line of my code to the next? If so how do I address it? SearchButton = WebDriverWait(driver, 15).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.button-label'))) SearchButton.click()

[@shrutipatne7884]

How to overcome stale element exception

[@mikethomas6323]

One of the best explanation of the solution I found: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4q0o6ejg9Npi9E