WebDriver: How to check if an page object web element exists?

Question

How to check if an Element exists, when using Page Objects with webdriver.

So far I am doing it this way.

DefaultPage defaultPage = PageFactory.initE         


        

Answer 1

Using C# bindings:

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

public class DefaultPage 
{
    [FindsBy(How = How.Id, Using = "link_i_user_create")]
    private IList userCreateMenuLink;

    public bool isUserCreateMenuLinkPresent()
    {
        return userCreateMenuLink.Any();
    }
}

You're telling Selenium to grab all elements that match that Id and put them into a List of IWebElement. You then call .Any() on the list which evaluates to true if at least one IWebElement was found.