Element is no longer valid freeze in IE8

Question

The following test works fine with IE7, IE9, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. But it freezes in IE8. IE8 doesn't do the last command. How can I fix it to run on IE8?

@driver.navigate.to 'http://www.berge-meer.de'
@driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 1
@driver.find_element(:link, "Schnäppchen").click
@driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 1
@driver.find_element(:partial_link_text, "Alle Reisedetails").click
@driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 3
@driver.find_element(:partial_link_text, "Termine").click

Browserstack stops with the following screen:

Answer 1

I would suggest you check this link http://docs.seleniumhq.org/exceptions/stale_element_reference.jsp.

In your case, you clicked a button, found the element and then page changed due to the previous click action. Thus you got "Element is not valid".

This might help: Wait for page load in Selenium