stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document

Question

I’m getting an error when using selenium for my app which is built in C#.

OpenQA.Selenium.StaleElementReferenceException: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document

IWebElement e = driver.FindElement(By.XPath(link_click), 10);

e.Click();

The error line is in the e.Click() but this was working fine earlier by using the same XPath but failed on the last try. How can I fix it?

Answer 1

If you are using Selenium in your app and you are getting means either the element changed in the page, or element gets deleted. So you can use the below-mentioned code to get rid of the error:

bool staleElement = true; 

while(staleElement){

  try{

     driver.FindElement(By.XPath(link_click), 10).Click();

     staleElement = false;

  } catch(StaleElementReferenceException e){

    staleElement = true;

  }

}