Is there any way to handle "stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document"

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Is there any way to handle “stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document” in Katalon.

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Hi,

You can create a custom method which will check for stale element reference

WebDriver driver = DriverFactory.getWebDriver();


int count = 0;


while(count  < 2){

    try {

        return driver.findElement(By.xpath("<locator>"))

    } catch (StaleElementReferenceException e) {

        //Ignore

    }

    count ++;

}
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Thanks Rahul. Will try this.

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Hi Lijumon_SL,
Is it worked for?.
If worked can you please share the code.

Thanks,
Swathi

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Hi Swathi, It worked.For mostly it finds element second time. We created a custom method with code structured as same as above.

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Wrong approach to be honest: stale references appear when you’ve navigated somewhere else or clicked somewhere and the DOM changed. You need to re-fetch WebElements after that happens…

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