Java Selenium Webdriver chrome can't find element

Question

I am trying to click on a on card inside a container. I have tried id, class,xpath but it doesn't find it. I unsure on what else to try to be able to get the element.

here is the code of the element I want to click on:

<div class="mtable" id="w-card" status="83" entertainer="1799">
    <div class="mtable-cell wc-gray-dark" id="widget-icon" style="border-color: ">
        <div class="caption"><img src="/images/default_entertainer_image.jpg" class="caption-img"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="mtable-cell wc-white" id="widget-text">
        <div>
            <h6>
                <span id="status-83" class="label label-default ">
                    <span class="entertainer-name">Testing</span>
                    <br>Testing100
                    <br>Last Seen: never
                </span>
            </h6>
        </div>
        <div id="timers">
            <div id="lastChange" class="pull-left"></div>
            <div id="circle" class="pull-right"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

selenium code:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"w-card\"]")).click();

I have run display tests on all of the child elements of the div as well webdriver is finding it but is saying it's not displayed?

Is there n error? What is it? Have you considered clicking on one of the child elements? — SiKing
The error message I receive is org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: element not visible — Taylor Gagne
I ran isDisplayed and it returned that it found the element but says it's not being displayed? — Taylor Gagne

Paras Paras · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-13T07:22:23

Use Explicit Wait to wait for element to be clickable.

WebDriverWait driverWait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeOutInSeconds);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("w-card"))).click();

Java Selenium Webdriver chrome can't find element

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