Gmail login fail using Selenium webdriver. Showing element not found for password

Question

public static void main(String[] args){
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","E:/softwares/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver.exe");
    WebDriver gmail= new ChromeDriver();

    gmail.get("https://www.gmail.co.in"); 
    gmail.findElement(By.id("Email")).sendKeys("abcd");
    gmail.findElement(By.id("next")).click();
    gmail.findElement(By.id("Passwd")).sendKeys("xyz");

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Try setting `gmail.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);` after you create the `ChromeDriver` object. Let me know if this works. — JRodDynamite, Oct 24 '15 at 14:18

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

Try setting an implicit wait of maybe 10 seconds.

gmail.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Or set an explicit wait. An explicit waits is code you define to wait for a certain condition to occur before proceeding further in the code. In your case, it is the visibility of the password input field. (Thanks to ainlolcat's comment)

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(gmail, 10);
WebElement element = wait.until(
    ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("Passwd")));
gmail.findElement(By.id("Passwd")).sendKeys("xyz");

Explanation: The reason selenium can't find the element is because the id of the password input field is initially Passwd-hidden. After you click on the "Next" button, Google first verifies the email address entered and then shows the password input field (by changing the id from Passwd-hidden to Passwd). So, when the password field is still hidden (i.e. Google is still verifying the email id), your webdriver starts searching for the password input field with id Passwd which is still hidden. And hence, an exception is thrown.

May be use waitforvisible analog described there http://stackoverflow.com/q/10941184/1003030 . First part of answer is similar to your but explicit condition is more easy to read. — ainlolcat, Oct 24 '15 at 20:32

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '16 at 23:44

Thread.sleep(); worked for me .

WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.get("https:www.google.com");
        driver.findElement(By.linkText("Gmail")).click();
        driver.findElement(By.linkText("SIGN IN")).click();
        driver.findElement(By.id("Email")).sendKeys("abcde");
        driver.findElement(By.id("next")).click();
        Thread.sleep(2000);
    WebElement password = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='Passwd']"));
    password.sendKeys("xyzzz");
        driver.findElement(By.id("signIn")).click();
        Thread.sleep(4000);
       driver.close();

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 15 '19 at 11:41

driver.get("http://mail.google.com");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='identifierId']")).sendKeys("emaild");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[contains(text(),'Next')]")).click();
Thread.sleep(2000);
WebElement passwordEnter = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='password']"));
passwordEnter.sendKeys(password);
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[contains(text(),'Next')]")).click();

Gmail login fail using Selenium webdriver. Showing element not found for password

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