How do I verify that an element does not exist in Selenium 2

Question

In Selenium 2 I want to ensure that an element on the page that the driver has loaded does not exist. I\'m including my naive implementation here.

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Answer 1

You can retrieve a list of elements by using driver.findElements("Your elements") and then search for the element. if the list doesn't contains the element you got yourself your desired behavior :)

Answer 2

Best solution

  protected boolean isElementPresent(WebElement el){
        try{
            el.isDisplayed();
            return true;
        }
        catch(NoSuchElementException e){
            return false;
        }
    }

Answer 3

If you are testing using junit and that is the only thing you are testing you could make the test expect an exception using

@Test (expected=NoSuchElementException.class)
public void someTest() {
    driver.findElement(By.className("commentEdit"));
}

Or you could use the findElements method that returns an list of elements or an empty list if none are found (does not throw NoSuchElementException):

...
List<WebElement> deleteLinks = driver.findElements(By.className("commentEdit"));
assertTrue(deleteLinks.isEmpty());
...

or

....
assertTrue(driver.findElements(By.className("commentEdit")).isEmpty());
....

Answer 4

Use assertFalse :)

assertFalse(isElementPresent(By.className("commentEdit")));

Answer 5

If you're using the Javascript API, you can use WebElement.findElements(). This method will return a Promise with an array of found elements. You can check the length of the array to ensure no items were found.

driver.findElements(By.css('.selector')).then(function(elements) {
  expect(elements.length).to.equal(0)
})

I'm using Chai assertion library inside the Promise's callback to expect a certain value.

Reference: https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/javascript/module/selenium-webdriver/index_exports_WebElement.html

Answer 6

public boolean exist(WebElement el){
   try {
      el.isDisplayed();
      return true;
   }catch (NoSuchElementException e){
      return false;
   }
}

if(exist(By.id("Locator details"))==false)

or

WebElement el= driver.findElementby(By.locator("locator details")
public boolean exists(WebElement el)
 try{
  if (el!=null){
   if (el.isDisplayed()){
     return true;

    }
   }
 }catch (NoSuchElementException e){
   return false;
 }
}