wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf Element1 OR Element2)

Question

I want use wait.until(ExpectedConditions) with TWO elements. I am running a test, and I need WebDriver to wait until either of Element1 OR

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there is no such a command. You can overcome this by try and catch, or I would better recommend you to use open source Ruby library Watir.

Answer 2

You can also use a CSSSelector like this:

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("h2.someClass, h3.otherClass")));

Replace someClass and otherClass with what you had in [...] in the xpath.

Answer 3

If you have a variable number of conditions to satisfy, you can leverage a generic list such as Java's ArrayList<> as shown here, and then do the following:

//My example is waiting for any one of a list of URLs (code is java)

    public void waitUntilUrls(List<String> urls) {
        if(null != urls && urls.size() > 0) {
            System.out.println("Waiting at " + _driver.getCurrentUrl() + " for " + urls.size() + " urls");
            List<ExpectedCondition<Boolean>> conditions = new ArrayList<>();
            for (String url : urls) {
                conditions.add(ExpectedConditions.urlContains(url));
            }

            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(_driver, 30);
            ExpectedCondition<Boolean>[] x = new ExpectedCondition[conditions.size()];
            x = conditions.toArray(x);
            wait.until(ExpectedConditions.or(x)); // "OR" selects from among your ExpectedCondition<Boolean> array
        }
    }

Answer 4

Now there's a native solution for that, the or method, check the doc.

You use it like so:

driverWait.until(ExpectedConditions.or(
    ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("div.something")),
    ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("div.anything"))));

Answer 5

There is an alternative way to wait but it isnt using expected conditions and it uses a lambda expression instead..

wait.Until(x => driver.FindElements(By.Xpath("//h3[@class='... ']")).Count > 0 || driver.FindElements(By.Xpath("//h2[@class='... ']")).Count > 0); 

Answer 6

There is a simple solution for this, using an Explicit Wait:

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//*[@id='FirstElement' or @id='SecondElement']")));

Before this I was trying to use wait.until(ExpectedConditions.or(..., which was not compatible with selenium versions before 2.53.0.