selenium returning empty text - c#

Following a tutorial to test search functionality on wikipedia using c#. My test keeps failing because the the text from the h1 element im trying to return keeps returning empty. There is definitely text inside the h1 header. Any idea why This element is returning empty when it has text?
IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page");
IWebElement searchInput = driver.FindElement(By.Id("searchInput"));
searchInput.SendKeys("Christiaan Barnard");
searchInput.SendKeys(Keys.Enter);
IWebElement firstHeading = driver.FindElement(By.Id("firstHeading"));
Assert.AreEqual("Christiaan Barnard", firstHeading.Text);
driver.Quit();

It may be because the element is found, but does not yet have the expected value. The best approach is to wait until the text has the expected value, using WebDriverWait:
var wait = new WebDriverWait(Driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
var result = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.TextToBePresentInElementLocated(By.Id("firstHeading"), "Christiaan Barnard"));
Assert.IsTrue(result);

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Selenium - OpenQA.Selenium.ElementNotInteractableException: 'element not interactable

I'm trying to input text into a username field. It appears to find an element, however SendKeys() errors stating that the element is not interactable. I'm already waiting until the element exists, so I wouldn't think its related to waiting. Here is my code:
Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
ChromeDriver cd = new
ChromeDriver(#"C:\Users\xxx\Downloads\chromedriver_win32\");
cd.Url = #"https://connect.ramtrucks.com/us/en/login";
cd.Navigate();
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(cd,TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
IWebElement e = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(By.ClassName("analytics-login-username")));
e.SendKeys("xxx#gmail.com");
Any suggestions would be much appreciated :)
There are 2 thing you need to fix here:
You are using locator that is not unique.
You need to wait for element clickability, not just existence. I couldn't find element clickability case in C#, so element visibility can be used instead.
So, instead of
IWebElement e = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(By.ClassName("analytics-login-username")));
e.SendKeys("xxx#gmail.com");
Try this:
IWebElement e = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementIsVisible(By.CssSelector("input.analytics-login-username"))).SendKeys("xxx#gmail.com");

How can I wait for an element from another element in C# Selenium

Is there a way to perform a wait.Until by somehow searching the element from another element, rather than from the whole driver?
example:
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSec));
IWebElement element = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(by));
I cannot modify the 'by' to be too specific and when it is searched under the driver and gets the wrong element.
IWebElement element = wait.Until(drv => drv.FindElement(by));
this option also searches under the driver.
I want something like this:
public static IWebElement WaitElement(this IWebElement webElement, IWebDriver driver, By by, int timeoutInSec = 5)
{
try
{
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSec));
IWebElement element = wait.Until(webElement.FindElement(by));
}
When I try to write this code I get this error:
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It may be late, but hopefully will help someone else. Just change the syntax of your last line in the 3rd option to the following:
IWebElement element = wait.Until(d => webElement.FindElement(by));

c# with Selenium: element not visible

I'm trying to create an automated ui test with selenium in c#. Here is my code:
driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();
driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("my_url");
driver.FindElementById("textBox").Clear();
driver.FindElementById("textBox").SendKeys("tire");
driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
wait.Until((ExpectedConditions.ElementIsVisible(By.Id("Moto"))));
driver.FindElementById("Moto").Click();
Before using a wait.until, I was getting the exception ElementNotVisibleException, but now I'm getting the exception WebDriverTimeoutException because the element with the id "Moto" is not visible.
Here is a screenshot of a part of the DOM:
So why the moto checkbox is not found or is not visible?
Try the below code (in Java) as it is working at my end for the same structure -
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//label[#for='Moto']")).click();
I don't know why it is causing problem to find <input> tag by id
You might need to scroll to the element to make it visible
IWebElement moto = driver.FindElement(By.Id("Moto"));
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.MoveToElement(moto).Perform();
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementIsVisible(By.Id("Moto"))).Click();

.Text not working in Selenium PhantomJS C#

I want to get the text Sample from this structure:
<td id="IDName">Sample</td>
so I tried this:
driver1.FindElement(By.Id("IDName")).Text;
but it always return null.
Is there any reason why is it not working?
It's Hard to say why .Text is not working in your case, Might be possible when you are going to find element it's present on the DOM without text, So you should WebDriverWait to wait until element exists as below :-
var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
IWebElement element = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(By.Id("IDName")));
element.Text;
Or might be possible it's designing issues of your HTML, then you can get text by using .GetAttribute("innerHTML") as below :-
var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
IWebElement element = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(By.Id("IDName")));
element.GetAttribute("innerHTML");
Or then you can get text by using .GetAttribute("textContent") as below :-
var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
IWebElement element = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists(By.Id("IDName")));
element.GetAttribute("textContent");
Hope it helps...:)

.net phantomjs + selenium unable to get element

All is working well when I was using Selenium alone, but when i tried with phantomjs i get null in finding elements.
static void Main()
{
IWebDriver driver = new PhantomJSDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://sellercentral.amazon.de/gp/homepage.html");
var username = driver.FindElement(By.Id("username"));
var password = driver.FindElement(By.Id("password"));
username.SendKeys("*************************");
password.SendKeys("*************");
driver.FindElement(By.Id("sign-in-button")).Submit();
string messagesURL = "https://sellercentral.amazon.de/gp/communication-manager/inbox.html/ref=ag_cmin__cmin?ie=UTF8&clcmResponseTimeSuboptions=&dateExactEnd=&dateExactStart=&dateFilter=&itemsPerPage=20&marketplaceId=A1PA6795UKMFR9&otherPartyId=&pageNum=1&refIndex=40&searchBoxText=&showFilters=0&sortBy=ArrivalDate&sortOrder=Descending";
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(messagesURL);
ParseMessages(driver);
}
public static void ParseMessages(IWebDriver driver) {
var node = driver.FindElements(By.ClassName("list-row-white"));
foreach (var n in node) {
var refNo = n.FindElement(By.ClassName("data-display-field-border-lbr"));
Console.WriteLine(mi.refNo);
}
}
In this line of code, i get null: var node = driver.FindElements(By.ClassName("list-row-white"));
But when i used selenium alone with actual browser, all is working. But i wanted to get things to be headless.
I am new to phantomJS, correct me if i implemented it correctly and if my code is right.
In some cases, PhantomJS has issues working with css related stuff or element classes.
In such case, converting locator to XPath may solve the problem.
// Thread.Sleep(3000) // Please, replace me with WebDriverWait ^_^
var node = driver.FindElements(By.XPath("//*[contains(#class,'list-row-white')]"));
Another point, PhantomJS works much faster than any other browser.
Try to insert Thread.Sleep before the failed code line.
If the code will pass -- please, replace it with proper WebDriverWait expression

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