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

I see multiple solutions already posted that work great! However, just in case anyone needs something else, I thought I would post two solutions that I personally used in selenium C# to test if an element is present! Hope it helps, cheers!

public static class IsPresent
{
    public static bool isPresent(this IWebDriver driver, By bylocator)
    {

        bool variable = false;
        try
        {
            IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(bylocator);
            variable = element != null;
        }
       catch (NoSuchElementException){

       }
        return variable; 
    }

}

Here is the second

    public static class IsPresent2
{
    public static bool isPresent2(this IWebDriver driver, By bylocator)
    {
        bool variable = true; 
        try
        {
            IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(bylocator);

        }
        catch (NoSuchElementException)
        {
            variable = false; 
        }
        return variable; 
    }

}