Stale element not found, is this relate to using same Object?

[Brandon_Hein]

Since this topic doesn’t have a solution marked, and since I don’t want to read through the entire history (that has appeared to have devolved into a fight ), I’ll just link this discussion in regards to the StaleElementReferenceException:

Stale Element Reference

I am getting the “Stale Element Reference” seemingly at random. I have a page where I capture the text on a vehicle make link and store it to a variable. I then click the link which updates the panel with a new report (not reloading the page). One the new report loads, I then capture vehicle makes from all of the rows in the grid and loop through them to verify that all are the same. Then I click on the 1st rows, model link and do the same process of checking. This is one point (clicking the mo…

I think it’s important to understand how/when this exception occurs in order to properly mitigate it.