Selenium Webdriver: How To Deal With “Element Is No Longer Attached To The DOM”

I got an inconsistent scenario where sometimes I got the error “Element Is No Longer Attached To The DOM”.

To deal with this I have added the following code while accessing the element:

 int count = 0;

            while (count < 5)

            {

                try

                {

                    IWebElement textFound = driver.FindElement(By.LinkText(text));

                    textFound.Click();

                }

                catch (StaleElementReferenceException e)

                {

                    e.ToString();

                    Console.WriteLine(“Trying to recover from stale element:” + e.Message);

                    count = count + 1;

                }

                count = count + 5;

            }

Thus, instead of failing straightaway, the test will attempt a few times to click the element, or else exception will be caught to allow the test to fail gracefully.