Use element by css to check if element exists in Protractor

Question

In a protractor end to end test, I want to check if an element exist using element(by.css(...)), my code:

var myElement = element(by.css(\'.elementClass\'));         


        

Answer 1

Truthy and falsie refer to values that are evaluated to true and false after being coerced to a boolean unless you want your function to return different types of values.

var myElement = element(by.css('.elementClass'));
myElement.isPresent().then(function (elm)
{
    if (elm)
    {
        console.log("... Element was found")
        expect(myElement.getText()).toBeUndefined();
    } else {
        console.log("... Element was not found")
    }
});