How to verify a Text present in the loaded page through WebDriver

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I need to verify a Text present in the page through WebDriver  I like to see the result as boolean  true or false   Can any one help on this by giving the WebDriver code

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As zmorris points driver getPageSource   contains  input    is not the proper solution because it searches in all the html  not only the texts on it  I suggest to check this question  how can I check if some text exist or not in the page  and the recomended way explained by Slanec   String bodyText   driver findElement By tagName  body    getText    Assert assertTrue  Text not found    bodyText contains text

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Below code is most suitable way to verify a text on page  You can use any one out of 8 locators as per your convenience    String Verifytext  driver findElement By tagName  body    getText   trim    Assert assertEquals Verifytext   Paste the text here which needs to be verified

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Note  Not in boolean  WebDriver driver new FirefoxDriver    driver get  http   www gmail com     if driver getPageSource   contains  Ur message            System out println  Pass        else         System out println  Fail

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If you are not bothered about the location of the text present  then you could use Driver PageSource property as below   Driver PageSource Contains  expected message

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Yes  you can do that which returns boolean  The following java code in WebDriver with TestNG or JUnit can do   protected boolean isTextPresent String text       try          boolean b   driver getPageSource   contains text           return b            catch Exception e           return false              Now call the above method as below   assertTrue isTextPresent  Your text       Or  there is another way  I think  this is the better way   private StringBuffer verificationErrors   new StringBuffer    try                     assertTrue driver findElement By cssSelector  BODY    getText   matches      s  S      Your text here r n r n   s  S            catch  Error e         verificationErrors append e toString

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Driver getPageSource   is a bad way to verify text present  Suppose you say  driver getPageSource   contains  input    That doesn t verify  input  is present on the screen  only that  input  is present in the html  like an input tag   I usually verify text on an element by using xpath   boolean textFound   false    try       driver findElement By xpath      contains text    someText            textFound   true    catch  Exception e        textFound   false      If you want an exact text match  just remove the contains function   driver findElement By xpath      text    someText

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If you want check only displayed objects C         public bool TextPresent string text  int expectedNumberOfOccurrences                var elements   Driver FindElements By XPath       text   contains        text                     var dispayedElements   0          foreach  var webElement in elements                        if  webElement Displayed                                dispayedElements                                    var allExpectedElementsDisplayed   dispayedElements    expectedNumberOfOccurrences          return allExpectedElementsDisplayed

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For Ruby programmers here is how you can assert       Have to include Minitest to get the asserts      assert  driver find element  tag name   gt   body   text include   Name

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