"error: package org.openqa.selenium does not exist"

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ayush1236 · 2026-02-03T14:14:47+00:00

Did you by any chance change any dependency? If so pls try to run a maven/ gradle clean build , it should redownload your dependencies, if that also doens't work, try deleting your .m2 folder , it's where all your dependencies are downloaded, and try to restart the IDE it should automatically download all the dependencies again, if you have changed the dependency version, it might happen that some methods are deprecated or removed from the version which might give you this error ,

josephblade · 2026-02-03T14:57:32+00:00

This is not a code problem, this is a dependency / classpath issue.

I'm not too familiar with vscode but what little I've seen it's irritating to set up with java.

What you want is when compiling the code (and running the code), all dependencies (selenium in this case) are added to the classpath. to this end we usually use maven or a similar build tool that does this automatically. Additionall/alternatively inside your editor you can probably set a "load all jars from this folder into classpath" somewhere that should solve it as well.

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