[🐛 Bug]: Cant find element using Xpath

[anugrahjayaaaa]

What happened?

hi all

I found an issue when creating a regression test using Selenium. Previously, I made a Selenium script for WordPress 6.2 using the same script I used for WordPress 6.5. Specifically, when creating a page, when I wanted to fill in the title with the help of XPath as a selector, for some reason, Selenium could not find the element for the title, and the script failed to execute.

Has anyone experienced this or does anyone know why this could happen? I have tried changing the XPath, adding sleep time, but it still doesn’t work

Thank you

How can we reproduce the issue?

Install WordPress 6.5.5

Create login script for WordPress

Create content script for WordPress, here an example of the ode

here the object repository
public static string POST_TITLE = "//h1[@contenteditable='true' and @aria-label='Add title']";

here is my code to fill the post title

// filled title
_driver.WaitToDisplay(By.XPath(PostObjects.POST_TITLE)).SendKeys(postTitle);

here the page
%%WORDPRESS-DOMAIN%%/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

here the element targets HTML
<h1 contenteditable="true" class="wp-block wp-block-post-title block-editor-block-list__block editor-post-title editor-post-title__input rich-text" aria-label="Add title" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="white-space: pre-wrap; min-width: 1px;"><span data-rich-text-placeholder="Add title" style="pointer-events:none;user-select:none;-webkit-user-select:none;-moz-user-select:none;-ms-user-select:none;"></span></h1>

Relevant log output

OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//h1[@contenteditable='true' and @aria-label='Add title']"}
  (Session info: chrome=131.0.6778.86); For documentation on this error, please visit: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/errors#no-such-element-exception
   at OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriver.UnpackAndThrowOnError(Response errorResponse, String commandToExecute)
   at OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriver.ExecuteAsync(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)
   at OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriver.Execute(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)
   at OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriver.FindElement(String mechanism, String value)
   at OpenQA.Selenium.By.<.ctor>b__11_0(ISearchContext context)
   at OpenQA.Selenium.By.FindElement(ISearchContext context)
   at OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriver.FindElement(By by)
   at SeleniumTest.NUnit.Extensions.DriverExtensions.WaitToDisplay(IWebDriver driver, By by, Int32 timeout, Boolean retry) in D:\Laragon\www\domain.cms.php.internal\CWP2.Regression.Test\Wordpress\SeleniumTest.NUnit\Extensions\DriverExtensions.cs:line 58
   at SeleniumTest.NUnit.Extensions.DriverExtensions.WaitToDisplay(IWebDriver driver, By by) in D:\Laragon\www\domain.cms.php.internal\CWP2.Regression.Test\Wordpress\SeleniumTest.NUnit\Extensions\DriverExtensions.cs:line 27
   at SeleniumTest.NUnit.NF.SeleniumTestSuite._CreateContent(String postTitle, String postBodyContent, String testName) in D:\Laragon\www\domain.cms.php.internal\CWP2.Regression.Test\Wordpress\SeleniumTest.NUnit\SeleniumTestSuite.cs:line 462
   at SeleniumTest.NUnit.NF.SeleniumTestSuite.CreateContent() in D:\Laragon\www\domain.cms.php.internal\CWP2.Regression.Test\Wordpress\SeleniumTest.NUnit\SeleniumTestSuite.cs:line 412

Operating System

Windows and Ubuntu

Selenium version

.net 6

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

ChromeDriver 131.0.6778.87/win32

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

[github-actions]

@anugrahjayaaaa, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[github-actions]

Hi, @anugrahjayaaaa.
Please follow the issue template, we need more information to reproduce the issue.

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[anugrahjayaaaa]

hi, sorry. updated the first comment.
thanks

[pujagani]

Please provide a reproducible test script/repo with minimum dependencies so that we can reproduce the issue and help narrow down the root cause. It will be nice to have a complete code snippet that we could simple copy-paste and it will help reproduce the issue.