WebElement getStaleElemById(String id, WebDriver driver) {
    try {
        return driver.findElement(By.id(id));
    } catch (StaleElementReferenceException e) {
        System.out.println("Attempting to recover from StaleElementReferenceException ...");
        return getStaleElemById(id, driver);
    }
}

WebElement getStaleElemByCss(String css, WebDriver driver) {
    try {
        return driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(css));
    } catch (StaleElementReferenceException e) {
        System.out.println("Attempting to recover from StaleElementReferenceException ...");
        return getStaleElemByCss(css, driver);
    } catch (NoSuchElementException ele) {
         System.out.println("Attempting to recover from NoSuchElementException ...");
         return getStaleElemByCss(css, driver);
    }
}

public class NeverStaleWebElement implements WebElement {
    private WebElement element;
    private final WebDriver driver;
    private final By foundBy;

    public NeverStaleWebElement(WebElement element, WebDriver driver, By foundBy) {
        this.element = element;
        this.driver = driver;
        this.foundBy = foundBy;
    }

    @Override
    public void click() {
        try {
            element.click();
        } catch (StaleElementReferenceException e) {
            // log exception

            // assumes implicit wait, use custom findElement() methods for custom behaviour
            element = driver.findElement(foundBy);

            // recursion, consider a conditioned loop instead
            click();
        }
    }

    // ... similar for other methods, too

}

WebElement getStaleElem(By by, WebDriver driver) {
    try {
        return driver.findElement(by);
    } catch (StaleElementReferenceException e) {
        System.out.println("Attempting to recover from StaleElementReferenceException ...");
        return getStaleElem(by, driver);
    } catch (NoSuchElementException ele) {
        System.out.println("Attempting to recover from NoSuchElementException ...");
        return getStaleElem(by, driver);
    }
}

WebElement getStaleElem(By by, WebDriver driver) {
    try {
        return driver.findElement(by);
    } catch (StaleElementReferenceException | NoSuchElementException e) {
        System.out.println("Attempting to recover from " + e.getClass().getSimpleName() + "...");
        return getStaleElem(by, driver);
    }
}

boolean isStillOnOldPage = true;
    while (isStillOnOldPage) {
        try {
            theElement.getAttribute("whatever");
        } catch (StaleElementReferenceException e) {
            isStillOnOldPage = false;
        }
    }
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 15);
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("theElementId")));

public int getNumberOfElementsFound(By by) {
    return  driver.findElements(by).size();
  }

public WebElement getElementWithIndex(By by, int pos) {
    return driver.findElements(by).get(pos);
  }

/**click on each link */
public void getLinks()throws Exception{
try {
List<WebElement> componentList = driver.findElements(By.tagName("a"));
System.out.println(componentList.size());

    for (WebElement component : componentList)
    {
        //click1();
        System.out.println(component.getAttribute("href"));
    }
 int numberOfElementsFound = getNumberOfElementsFound(By.tagName("a"));
for (int pos = 0; pos < numberOfElementsFound; pos++) {
     if (getElementWithIndex(By.tagName("a"), pos).isDisplayed()){

  getElementWithIndex(By.tagName("a"), pos).click();
  Thread.sleep(200);
  driver.navigate().back();
  Thread.sleep(200);
}
  }
    }catch (Exception e){
        System.out.println("error in getLinks "+e);
    }
}

driver = webdriver.Firefox();
driver.get("http://www.github.com");
search_input = lambda: driver.find_element_by_name('q');
search_input().send_keys('hello worldn');
time.sleep(5);


search_input().send_keys('hello frankn') // no stale element exception

# Using Jquery queue to get animation queue length.
    animationQueueIs = """
    return $.queue( $("#%s")[0], "fx").length;
    """ % element_id
    wait_until(lambda: self.driver.execute_script(animationQueueIs)==0)

self.driver.execute_script("$("li:contains('Narendra')").click()");

# Wait till the element goes stale, this means the list has updated
  wait_until(lambda: is_element_stale(old_link_reference))

for(int j=0; j<5;j++)
try {
    WebElement elementName=driver.findElement(By.xpath(“somexpath”));
    break;
} catch(StaleElementReferenceException e){
e.toString();
System.out.println(“Stale element error, trying ::  ” + e.getMessage());
}
elementName.sendKeys(“xyz”);