How we can deal with stale element reference with selenium libray?We need a keyword to deal with stale element reference

[everlighting]

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[emanlove]

Could you expand upon what you are looking for you you say "We need a keyword to deal with stale element reference"? I am not sure what types of requirements you are looking for.

[Brownies]

Duplicate of #1767

In the meantime, you can use and extend a SeleniumLibrary plugin like this to handle stale elements.

[aaltat]

Every Wait * keyword has automatic suppression of stale element reference exception, which was very much debated when I did made the change.

In my opinion it is wrong to suppress the stale element reference exception in assertion type of keywords, like Click Element because exception is an indication of failure. Also retry will, most likely, lead to different type of problems. Instead users should invents in SUT testability and find a way to ask from the application when it is ready to receive the action. One way is using the https://pypi.org/project/robotframework-seleniumtestability/ but other also exist.