How to wait for invisibility of an element through PageFactory using Selenium and Java

Question

Is there a way to wait for an element not present in Selenium using PageFactory annotations?

When using:

@FindBy(css= \'#loading-content\')
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Answer 1

invisibilityOfElementLocated is expecting a locator but you are sending a web-element and that is why it is throwing an error. You can perform the operation by checking the webelement list by using:

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfAllElements(Arrays.asList(pleaseWait)));

Updated Answer:
If you want to check that the element is not present on the page then you can check its list size is equal to 0 or not, as its list size will be 0 when its not displayed on the UI.

You can get the list of the element by using:

@FindBy(css='#loading-content')
List pleaseWait;

And you can check the list size equals to 0 by using:

if(pleaseWait.size()==0){
     System.out.println("Element is not visible on the page");
     // Add the further code here
}

And this would not give NoSuchElement exception as well.