NoSuchElementException exception with headless chrome and selenium

Question

I am using headless chrome for our selenium tests and did the below changes:

DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

options.addArguments("--headless");

options.addArguments("--disable-gpu");

options.addArguments("window-size=1800x1080");

desiredCapabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);

It logs into an internal page and then waits for the element to be visible:

selenium.waitForElementVisible("xpath=//tr/td/div[@class[contains(., 'x-grid-cell-inner')] and text()='Global Test Merchant 14']");

This all works well when I do not have the headless option:

This is what I get aan error:

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: no such element: Unable to locate element:  {"method":"xpath","selector":"//tr/td/div[@class[contains(., 'x-grid-cell-inner')] and text()='Global Test Merchant 14']"} 

when I run the test with --headless.

Chrome Version: 62.0.3202.89 chromeDriver: 2.33.506120 Selenium version: 2.53.0 Windows 7

Answer 1

As you are seeing NoSuchElementException you can consider using the xpath along with a waiter for the element to be visible as follows :

//tr/td/div[@class='x-grid-cell-inner' and contains(., 'Global Test Merchant')]