Getting Timeout using Selenium Webdriver - selenium

Question

I am using Selenium WebDriver and its was working all fine and today i am getting either timeout if i use the below code or getting the error Unable to find element with id == //*[#id='ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_AddControl1_txtName']
i try to use this:
public IWebElement GetElementId(string id)
{
//return Driver.FindElement(By.Id(id));
Driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(TimeOut));
return Driver.FindElement(By.Id(id));
}
and tried this:
public IWebElement GetElementId(string id)
{
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
IWebElement category = wait.Until<IWebElement>((d) =>
{
return d.FindElement(By.Id(el_id));
});
}
I am still couldn't figured how to avoid time-out or element not found error
any help?

Answer 1

Try using the FluentWait class:
public WebElement fluentWait( final By locator ) {
Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<WebDriver>(driver)
.withTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
.pollingEvery(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
.ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class, StaleElementReferenceException.class);
// use a "custom" ExpectedCondition
WebElement foo = wait.until( new Function<WebDriver, WebElement>() {
public WebElement apply( WebDriver driver ) {
return driver.findElement( locator );
}
});
// usually use one of the built-in ExpectedCondtions
// WebElement foo = wait.until(
// ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated( locator );
return foo;
};
you can read about fluent wait here
Or if not check thoroughly if you found locator properly.
Hope this helps you)

Answer 2

You are using xpath but in the findElement you are using By.Id change it as
By.xpath("//*[#id='ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_AddeCardControl1_txtName']")
OR
By.id("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_AddeCardControl1_txtName")
If it still shows timeout error then try by specifying the element name too in the xpath like
//div[#id='element_id']
because specifying like this
//*[#id='ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_AddeCardControl1_txtName']
may took time by searching all the elements id attribute so if you specify the particular element then the searching time will be minimized.
If it doesn't works then check whether that your xpath is correct or not.