Selenium WebDriver randomly throws StaleElementReferenceException when clicking on dynamically loaded elements
After trying multiple solutions online, I still can't figure this out... I'm working through a tutorial and I'm working with an scenario with Selenium WebDriver where it intermittently throws a `StaleElementReferenceException` when trying to click on elements that are loaded dynamically via AJAX. I'm using Java with Selenium 4.0.0 and ChromeDriver 93. Here’s the scenario: I navigate to a page that displays a list of users. After the initial load, I scroll down to load more users, and I try to click on one of the newly loaded elements. Here's a simplified version of my code: ```java WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); driver.get("https://example.com/users"); List<WebElement> users = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(".user-list .user")); // Scroll to load more users ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);"); // Wait for new users to load new WebDriverWait(driver, Duration.ofSeconds(10)) .until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector(".user-list .user"))); // Try to click on the first user after loading more users = driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(".user-list .user")); users.get(0).click(); ``` Despite waiting for the visibility of the users, sometimes I get the following behavior: ``` StaleElementReferenceException: The element reference is stale; the element is not attached to the page document ``` What puzzles me is that I can see the element on the page, but it seems that the page has updated, causing the reference to the WebElement to become stale. I’ve tried re-fetching the list of users right before clicking, but I still encounter this behavior occasionally. Is there a better approach to handle dynamically loaded elements in this case? Should I be implementing some form of retry logic to stabilize the clicks? Any advice or best practices would be greatly appreciated! I'm coming from a different tech stack and learning Java. I'm working on a service that needs to handle this. Any ideas what could be causing this?