title: Selenium Webdriver unable to locate element from webtable
body: <p>I am trying to access a webtable which is quite static and get the values from each row.
  I am getting an error, the code is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import java.util.List;
  import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
  
  import org.openqa.selenium.By;
  import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
  
  import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
  import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
  import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
  import org.testng.annotations.Test;
  
  
  public class TS1_TC2 {
  
  WebDriver driver=null;
  
  String btn1="html/body/form/div[1]/center/table/tbody/tr/td[1]/input";
  String table="html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div/center/table";
  
  @BeforeTest
  public void browserCheck()
  {
      driver=new FirefoxDriver();
      driver.get("http://demo.borland.com/gmopost/");
      driver.manage().window().maximize();
      driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  
  
  }
  @Test
  public void TS1_TC2()
  {   
      driver.findElement(By.xpath(btn1)).click();
      //html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div/center/table/tbody
      //html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div/center/table
      WebElement table=driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div/center/table"));
      List&lt;WebElement&gt; rows=table.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
  
      //WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 100, 15);
  
  
      System.out.println(rows.size());
      for(int rownum=2;rownum&lt;rows.size();rownum++)
      {
          List&lt;WebElement&gt; cols=rows.get(rownum).findElements(By.tagName("td"));
          System.out.println(cols.size());
          for(int colnum=1;colnum&lt;cols.size();colnum++)
          {
              //System.out.println(cols.get(colnum).getText());
              //wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfAllElementsLocatedBy(By.xpath("html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div/center/table/tbody/tr["+rownum+"]/td["+colnum+"]")));
              System.out.println("html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div/center/table/tbody/tr["+rownum+"]/td["+colnum+"]");
              System.out.println(cols.get(colnum).findElement(By.xpath("html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div/center/table/tbody/tr["+rownum+"]/td["+colnum+"]")).getText());
              System.out.println("--");
          }
              System.out.println();
      }
  
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>}</p>
  
  <p>The Exception thrown is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>FAILED: TS1_TC2
  org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div/center/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[1]"}
  Command duration or timeout: 20.08 seconds
  For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html
  Build info: version: '2.40.0', revision: 'fbe29a9', time: '2014-02-19 20:55:11'
  System info: host: 'Vihaan-PC', ip: '192.168.1.3', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_51'
  Session ID: 15f51aea-04cd-4ea4-bdae-0bdd47312bd7
  Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
  Capabilities [{platform=XP, acceptSslCerts=true, javascriptEnabled=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true, databaseEnabled=true, browserName=firefox, handlesAlerts=true, browserConnectionEnabled=true, webStorageEnabled=true, nativeEvents=false, rotatable=false, locationContextEnabled=true, applicationCacheEnabled=true, takesScreenshot=true, version=29.0.1}]
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:193)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:145)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:573)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:268)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.findElement(RemoteWebElement.java:171)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.findElementByXPath(RemoteWebElement.java:244)
      at org.openqa.selenium.By$ByXPath.findElement(By.java:357)
      at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.findElement(RemoteWebElement.java:167)
      at TS1_TC2.TS1_TC2(TS1_TC2.java:57)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:84)
      at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:714)
      at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:901)
      at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:1231)
      at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:127)
      at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:111)
      at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:767)
      at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:617)
      at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:334)
      at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:329)
      at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:291)
      at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:240)
      at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
      at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86)
      at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1224)
      at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1149)
      at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1057)
      at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.run(RemoteTestNG.java:111)
      at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:204)
      at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:175)
  Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler$UnknownServerException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"html/body/form/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/div/center/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[1]"}
  Build info: version: '2.40.0', revision: 'fbe29a9', time: '2014-02-19 20:55:11'
  System info: host: 'Vihaan-PC', ip: '192.168.1.3', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_51'
  Driver info: driver.version: unknown
      at &lt;anonymous class&gt;.FirefoxDriver.prototype.findElementInternal_(file:///C:/Users/Vihaan/AppData/Local/Temp/anonymous7820392430389922124webdriver-profile/extensions/fxdriver@googlecode.com/components/driver_component.js:8904)
      at &lt;anonymous class&gt;.fxdriver.Timer.prototype.setTimeout/&lt;.notify(file:///C:/Users/Vihaan/AppData/Local/Temp/anonymous7820392430389922124webdriver-profile/extensions/fxdriver@googlecode.com/components/driver_component.js:396)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Kindly help , because I see the the xpath from firepath is exactly the same as the xpath fetched in the for loop.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks
  rajee</p>