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    <p>I have a dynamic web application built with WebObjects. There is a link that my test code is trying to find. I do a getPageSource() right before I find it and that is below.</p> <p>I find the tag successfully. Then I click on it. Nothing happens. The tag I am looking for on the next page does not get found.</p> <p>So, what about a tag can make it not respond to the click? There is no js attached to it. It is inside a span and surrounds an image, but that is all.</p> <p>When the test code finishes executing, I can click on the link manually and I see the next page. So what up? Any ideas?</p> <pre><code> [java] [1374173126242]: Going to Schedule page [java] [1374173126260]: [java] &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt; [java] &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;&lt;head&gt; [java] &lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type" /&gt; [java] &lt;meta content="COM" name="keywords" /&gt; [java] &lt;title&gt;APP!&lt;/title&gt; [java] &lt;link href="/cgi-bin/WebObjects/APP.woa/_wr_/wodata=/Users/ME/Projects/APP/WebServerResources/APP/login.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /&gt; [java] [java] &lt;link href="/cgi-bin/WebObjects/APP.woa/_wr_/wodata=/Users/ME/Projects/APP/WebServerResources/APP/APP.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /&gt; [java] [java] &lt;/head&gt; [java] &lt;body&gt; [java] [java] ( some bits removed . . . ) [java] &lt;div id="landing_page_main" class="welcomeBox"&gt; [java] &lt;div class="main_cont"&gt; [java] &lt;div class="logo"&gt;&lt;img src="/cgi-bin/WebObjects/APP.woa/_wr_/wodata=/Users/ME/Projects/APP/WebServerResources/APP/APP-live.png" alt="APP LIVE" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; [java] &lt;div class="table"&gt; [java] &lt;table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"&gt; [java] &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; [java] &lt;td valign="middle" align="center"&gt; [java] &lt;span title="Access My Schedule"&gt;&lt;a name="19" class="access_my_schedule_link" href="/cgi-bin/WebObjects/APP.woa/wo/Tbrd5n8SsAGIL22d7hkPCM/2.19"&gt;&lt;img width="74" border="0" height="64" src="/cgi-bin/WebObjects/APP.woa/_wr_/wodata=/Users/ME/Projects/APP/WebServerResources/APP/arrowRight.png" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; [java] &lt;/td&gt; [java] &lt;/tr&gt; [java] &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; [java] &lt;/div&gt; [java] &lt;/div&gt; [java] &lt;/div&gt; [java] [java] &lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt; [java] [1374173126320]: found element: [java] [[FirefoxDriver: firefox on MAC (7ac7e5e2-d4e2-334b-9d99-2e6ddb7b7439)] -&gt; class name: access_my_schedule_link] [java] [1374173126332]: element enabled? true [java] [1374173126342]: element selected? false [java] [1374173126362]: element displayed? true [java] [1374173126389]: element location: (620, 265) [java] [1374173126404]: element tagName: a [java] [1374173126431]: element text: [java] Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException: Timed out after 10 seconds waiting for APPLiveDriver$4@337b4703 [java] Build info: version: '2.33.0', revision: '4e90c97', time: '2013-05-22 15:33:32' [java] System info: os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.6.8', java.version: '1.6.0_51' [java] Driver info: driver.version: APPLiveDriver [java] at org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.FluentWait.timeoutException(FluentWait.java:259) [java] at org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.FluentWait.until(FluentWait.java:228) [java] at APPLiveDriver.scheduleAndBack(Unknown Source) [java] at APPLiveDriver.main(Unknown Source) [java] Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"class name","selector":"breadcrumb_home_link"} [java] Command duration or timeout: 9 milliseconds [java] For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html [java] Build info: version: '2.33.0', revision: '4e90c97', time: '2013-05-22 15:33:32' [java] System info: os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.6.8', java.version: '1.6.0_51' [java] Session ID: 7ac7e5e2-d4e2-334b-9d99-2e6ddb7b7439 [java] Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver [java] Capabilities [{platform=MAC, acceptSslCerts=true, javascriptEnabled=true, browserName=firefox, rotatable=false, locationContextEnabled=true, version=21.0, cssSelectorsEnabled=true, databaseEnabled=true, handlesAlerts=true, browserConnectionEnabled=true, nativeEvents=false, webStorageEnabled=true, applicationCacheEnabled=true, takesScreenshot=true}] [java] at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor14.newInstance(Unknown Source) [java] at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) [java] at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) [java] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:191) [java] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:145) [java] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:554) [java] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:307) [java] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElementByClassName(RemoteWebDriver.java:388) [java] at org.openqa.selenium.By$ByClassName.findElement(By.java:371) [java] at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:299) [java] at APPLiveDriver$4.apply(Unknown Source) [java] at APPLiveDriver$4.apply(Unknown Source) [java] at org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.FluentWait.until(FluentWait.java:208) [java] ... 2 more [java] Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler$UnknownServerException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"class name","selector":"breadcrumb_home_link"} [java] Build info: version: '2.33.0', revision: '4e90c97', time: '2013-05-22 15:33:32' [java] System info: os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.6.8', java.version: '1.6.0_51' [java] Driver info: driver.version: unknown [java] at &lt;anonymous class&gt;.FirefoxDriver.prototype.findElementInternal_(file:///var/folders/oZ/oZFKAiJ8FC80oMT1b--WME+++TQ/-Tmp-/anonymous4201752404452189319webdriver-profile/extensions/fxdriver@googlecode.com/components/driver_component.js:8444) [java] at &lt;anonymous class&gt;.FirefoxDriver.prototype.findElement(file:///var/folders/oZ/oZFKAiJ8FC80oMT1b--WME+++TQ/-Tmp-/anonymous4201752404452189319webdriver-profile/extensions/fxdriver@googlecode.com/components/driver_component.js:8453) [java] at &lt;anonymous class&gt;.DelayedCommand.prototype.executeInternal_/h(file:///var/folders/oZ/oZFKAiJ8FC80oMT1b--WME+++TQ/-Tmp-/anonymous4201752404452189319webdriver-profile/extensions/fxdriver@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:10456) [java] at &lt;anonymous class&gt;.DelayedCommand.prototype.executeInternal_(file:///var/folders/oZ/oZFKAiJ8FC80oMT1b--WME+++TQ/-Tmp-/anonymous4201752404452189319webdriver-profile/extensions/fxdriver@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:10461) [java] at &lt;anonymous class&gt;.DelayedCommand.prototype.execute/&lt;(file:///var/folders/oZ/oZFKAiJ8FC80oMT1b--WME+++TQ/-Tmp-/anonymous4201752404452189319webdriver-profile/extensions/fxdriver@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:10401) </code></pre>
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