title: IE 11 clicks on a button and waits until time out selenium webdriver
body: <p>I have a scenario, where I click a button and a pop up appears, where I need to click another button. Driver is clicking on the button in the page, and with stay's on the same element until timedout. I can see that the button in the pop up is selected but not clicked. I tries using CSS selector instead of XPath. Tried using SendKeys("\n"), Sendkeys(keys.ENTER). Nothing worked.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using IE11, selenium webdriver 2.52, windows 8.1.</p>
  
  <p>Method where driver waits:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public static void ImportThisFile()
      {
          try
          {
              new WebDriverWait(Drivers._driverInstance, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2000));
              Drivers._driverInstance.FindElement(By.CssSelector("#import-this-file-button")).Click();
              Drivers._driverInstance.SwitchTo();
              new WebDriverWait(Drivers._driverInstance, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2000));
              Drivers._driverInstance.FindElement(By.CssSelector(".btn.medium.left")).SendKeys(OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Enter);   //Drivers._driverInstance.FindElement(By.XPath(".//*[@id='process-file-form']/fieldset/div[3]/input"));
              Drivers._driverInstance.SwitchTo().ParentFrame();
          }
          catch(Exception e)
          {
              Drivers._driverInstance.FindElement(By.XPath("html/body/div[6]/div[1]/button")).Click(); ;
              throw new Exception("Import pop up window: " + e);
          }
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the stack trace i'm getting timedout messsage:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Test method SDTestAutomation.SDDirectPage_Tests.Upload_DuplicateData threw exception: 
  OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL http://localhost:56598/session/c627ffbd-21cf-47c2-abd8-6f7aa10516f5/element timed out after 60 seconds. ---&gt; System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out
  TestCleanup method SDTestAutomation.SDDirectPage_Tests.QuitBrowser threw exception. System.Exception: System.Exception: Logout button is not clickedOpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL http://localhost:56598/session/c627ffbd-21cf-47c2-abd8-6f7aa10516f5/element timed out after 60 seconds. ---&gt; System.Net.WebException: The request was aborted: The operation has timed out.
  at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
  at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.CreateResponse(WebRequest request)
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.CreateResponse(WebRequest request)
  at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.Execute(Command commandToExecute)
  at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.DriverServiceCommandExecutor.Execute(Command commandToExecute)
  at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Execute(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)
  at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.FindElement(String mechanism, String value)
  at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.FindElementByLinkText(String linkText)
  at OpenQA.Selenium.By.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClass6.&lt;LinkText&gt;b__4(ISearchContext context)
  at OpenQA.Selenium.By.FindElement(ISearchContext context)
  at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.FindElement(By by)
  at OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.ExpectedConditions.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClass3b.&lt;ElementToBeClickable&gt;b__3a(IWebDriver driver)
  at OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.DefaultWait`1.Until[TResult](Func`2 condition)
  at SmartDebitTestFramework.HomePage.get_Logout() in 
  Result StackTrace:  
  at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.CreateResponse(WebRequest request)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
    at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.CreateResponse(WebRequest request)
    at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.Execute(Command commandToExecute)
    at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.DriverServiceCommandExecutor.Execute(Command commandToExecute)
    at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Execute(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)
    at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.FindElement(String mechanism, String value)
    at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.FindElementByXPath(String xpath)
    at OpenQA.Selenium.By.&lt;&gt;c__DisplayClasse.&lt;XPath&gt;b__c(ISearchContext context)
    at OpenQA.Selenium.By.FindElement(ISearchContext context)
    at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.FindElement(By by)
    at SmartDebitTestFramework.SDDirectPage.ImportThisFile() in 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have all the basic settings for IE set. I'm using IE 32 bit as 64 bit is very very slow. Can I have any suggestions to get out of this issue? Didn't find a workable solution for me Online.</p>
  
  <pre><code>InternetExplorerOptions options = new InternetExplorerOptions();
  options.AddAdditionalCapability("IgnoreZoomLevel", true);
  options.AddAdditionalCapability("EnableNativeEvents", false);
  options.AddAdditionalCapability("UnexpectedAlertBehavior", "accept");
  options.AddAdditionalCapability("EnablePersistentHover", true);          
  options.AddAdditionalCapability("IntroduceInstabilityByIgnoringProtectedModeSettings", true);
  options.AddAdditionalCapability("RequireWindowFocus", true);
  //var options = new InternetExplorerOptions { EnableNativeEvents = false };
  // options.AddAdditionalCapability("disable-popup-blocking", true);
  _driverInstance = new InternetExplorerDriver(path, options);
  // _driverInstance = new InternetExplorerDriver(path);
  _driverInstance.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromTicks(500));
  </code></pre>