Selenium WebDriver throwing StaleElementReferenceException when reloading a page with dynamically generated content in Chrome 120
I've been working on this all day and I tried several approaches but none seem to work. I've been struggling with this for a few days now and could really use some help. I'm facing a frustrating issue with Selenium WebDriver when I try to scrape a page that dynamically generates its content upon reloading. After performing an action that causes the page to reload, I attempt to access a specific element, but I keep getting a `StaleElementReferenceException`. My setup is using ChromeDriver 120 with Selenium 4.5.0, and I'm working with a React-based application. Here’s a simplified version of the code I'm using: ```python from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC # Initialize WebDriver options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() options.add_argument('--headless') # Run in headless mode for testing driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options) driver.get('https://example.com') # Perform action that triggers page reload button = driver.find_element(By.ID, 'reloadButton') button.click() # Wait for the new content to load try: WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'dynamicContent'))) content_element = driver.find_element(By.ID, 'dynamicContent') print(content_element.text) except Exception as e: print(f'Error encountered: {e}') finally: driver.quit() ``` After the button click, I see the content is generated, and I confirmed its presence with the `WebDriverWait`. However, when I try to access `content_element.text`, I repeatedly hit the `StaleElementReferenceException`. I’ve tried re-fetching the element after the wait and even wrapping the retrieval in a loop to handle potential stale references, but the error persists. Here’s one of the approaches I attempted: ```python for _ in range(3): # Retry fetching the element try: content_element = driver.find_element(By.ID, 'dynamicContent') print(content_element.text) break # Break if successful except StaleElementReferenceException: print('Stale Element, retrying...') ``` This doesn't seem to help. Am I missing something in handling the dynamic loading or the element reference? Any insights into best practices for working with dynamically generated content would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!