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Pete Lower
Pete Lower
17,225 Points
Posted by Pete Lower
Pete Lower
17,225 Points

How to test whether an element exists in the DOM w/ Selenium (node: selenium-webdriver)?

How can I check if an element exists on the page w/o my script failing? isDisplayed only takes in a tag name. Thanks!

2 Answers

Clinton Billedeaux
Clinton Billedeaux
1,393 Points
Clinton Billedeaux
Clinton Billedeaux
1,393 Points

Can you provide more context for the element you're trying to find? Specifically, do you expect that the element should exist on the page? Also, are you using WebDriverWait to create a wait for that element to be visible or clickable?

lebowski
lebowski
11,054 Points
lebowski
lebowski
11,054 Points

Sounds like you are trying to wait for an element that loads slightly after the page does. You'll probably want to look at something like this which waits until the condition is satisfied: 

 driver.get('http://www.google.com/ncr');

 var query = driver.wait(until.elementLocated(By.name('q')));
 query.sendKeys('webdriver\n');

 driver.wait(until.titleIs('webdriver - Google Search'));

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