How do I verify that an element does not exist in Selenium 2

Question

In Selenium 2 I want to ensure that an element on the page that the driver has loaded does not exist. I\'m including my naive implementation here.

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Answer 1

If you're using the Javascript API, you can use WebElement.findElements(). This method will return a Promise with an array of found elements. You can check the length of the array to ensure no items were found.

driver.findElements(By.css('.selector')).then(function(elements) {
  expect(elements.length).to.equal(0)
})

I'm using Chai assertion library inside the Promise's callback to expect a certain value.

Reference: https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/javascript/module/selenium-webdriver/index_exports_WebElement.html