[🐛 Bug]: WebDriverWait throws error instantly without waiting the any TimeSpan (C#)

[aspeed98]

What happened?

C# Using WebDriverWait throws error instantly, without waiting any amount of time given to it. Code I'm using is correct, in fact this code is 100% taken from the selenium.dev website. And of course OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI is being imported to project. https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/waits/

How can we reproduce the issue?

ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.Url = "https://www.google.com/ncr";
driver.FindElement(By.Name("q")).SendKeys("cheese" + Keys.Enter);

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
IWebElement firstResult = wait.Until(e => e.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[id='obviously WRONG XPATH']")));

Console.WriteLine(firstResult.Text);
driver.Quit();

Relevant log output

OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException: "no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//div[id='obviously WRONG XPATH']"}
(Session info: chrome=112.0.5615.50)

Operating System

Windows 11

Selenium version

4.8...

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome 111, 112, ...

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

ChromeDriver 111.0.5563.64

Are you using Selenium Grid?

no grid

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[titusfortner]

I can't duplicate this on Windows 11 with Chrome 111. We do need to change the example code, though.

try:

            driver.Url = "https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/web/dynamic.html";
            driver.FindElement(By.Id("adder")).Click();

            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
            IWebElement added = wait.Until(d => d.FindElement(By.Id("box0")));

[nvborisenko]

@titusfortner I think you will be able to reproduce the issue within following code:

            driver.Url = "https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/web/dynamic.html";
            driver.FindElement(By.Id("adder")).Click();

            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
            IWebElement added = wait.Until(d => d.FindElement(By.Id("UNKNOWN_ID")));

@aspeed98 you should add NoSuchElement exception as ignored while waiting element.

[titusfortner]

Hmm, that should be the default behavior, though. I'll try again.

[nvborisenko]

You are right, Titus.

Moreover, I executed original code and it works as expected: it waits 10 seconds and then throws exception.

[diemol]

Do we need to do something to fix this open issue? Or was it working as expected?

[nvborisenko]

Seems nothing to do from our side, it works as expected. I would ask @aspeed98 to provide cleaner steps for issue reproduction.

[diemol]

Closing as we did not get more information.

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