Selenium C# WebDriver: Wait until element is present

Question

I want to make sure that an element is present before the webdriver starts doing stuff.

I\'m trying to get something like this to work:

WebDriverWait w         


        

Answer 1

This is the reusable function to wait for an element present in DOM using Explicit Wait.

public void WaitForElement(IWebElement element, int timeout = 2)
{
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(timeout));
    wait.IgnoreExceptionTypes(typeof(NoSuchElementException));
    wait.IgnoreExceptionTypes(typeof(StaleElementReferenceException));
    wait.Until(driver =>
    {
        try
        {
            return element.Displayed;
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            return false;
        }
    });
}