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Handling Shadow DOM in Selenium

  If there is a shadow element in the webpage we cannot interact directly with selenium code, normally if we locate the element by finding the Element method then it will throw NosuchElement Exception in order to overcome this situation please read the below-mentioned context. How to Identify Shadow DOM Exists? The shadow DOM can identify by a shadow root XPath that is enclosed somewhere in the middle of the HTML structure. Section:  #shadow-root (open) is implemented before the start of every Shadow DOM. In HTML there can be multiple shadow root sections each section’s shadow properties are completely hidden from the actual Main DOM. So, we cannot access the shadow elements directly from Main DOM Handling Shadow DOM Elements There are two ways to handle/locate shadow elements in selenium by Using JavaScript Executor Shadow Libraries by Maven dependency 1) Using JavaScript Executor Using the JavaScript Executor interface we can execute shadow DOM query scripts in our selenium code by t