Best way to check that element is not present using Selenium WebDriver with java

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Im trying the code below but it seems it does not work    Can someone show me the best way to do this   public void verifyThatCommentDeleted final String text  throws Exception       new WebDriverWait driver  5  until new ExpectedCondition lt Boolean gt                   Override             public Boolean apply WebDriver input                    try                       input findElement By xpath String format                              Locators CHECK TEXT IN FIRST STATUS BOX  text                         return false                    catch  NoSuchElementException e                        return true

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Use findElements instead of findElement   findElements will return an empty list if no matching elements are found instead of an exception  Also  we can make sure that the element is present or not   Ex    List elements     driver findElements By yourlocatorstrategy    if elements size   gt 0       do this      else       do that

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i usually couple of methods  in pair  for verification whether element is present or not   public boolean isElementPresent By locatorKey        try           driver findElement locatorKey           return true        catch  org openqa selenium NoSuchElementException e            return false           public boolean isElementVisible String cssLocator       return driver findElement By cssSelector cssLocator   isDisplayed        Note that sometimes selenium can find elements in DOM but they can be invisible  consequently selenium will not be able to interact with them  So in this case method checking for visibility helps   If you want to wait for the element until it appears the best solution i found is to use fluent wait   public WebElement fluentWait final By locator       Wait lt WebDriver gt  wait   new FluentWait lt WebDriver gt  driver               withTimeout 30  TimeUnit SECONDS               pollingEvery 5  TimeUnit SECONDS               ignoring NoSuchElementException class        WebElement foo   wait until new Function lt WebDriver  WebElement gt              public WebElement apply WebDriver driver                return driver findElement locator                          return foo       Hope this helps

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WebElement element   driver findElement locator        Assert assertFalse element isDisplayed       The assertion will pass if the element is not present  otherwise it will fail

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Unable to comment to The Meteor Test Manual  since I have no rep  but I wanted to provide an example that took me quite awhile to figure out   Assert assertEquals 0  wd findElements By locator  locator    size       This assertion verifies that there are no matching elements in the DOM and returns the value of Zero  so the assertion passes when the element is not present   Also it would fail if it was present

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Instead of doing findElement  do findElements and check the length of the returned elements is 0  This is how I m doing using WebdriverJS and I expect the same will work in Java

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In Python for assertion I use  assert len driver find elements by css selector  quot your css selector quot       0

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public boolean isDisplayed WebElement element            try               return element isDisplayed              catch  NoSuchElementException e                return false                   If you wan t to check that element is displayed on the page your check should be  if isDisplayed yourElement         else

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int i 1   while  true      WebElementdisplay driver findElement By id    bar  i  -btnGo       System out println display      if  display isDisplayed    true           System out println  inside if statement  i       driver findElement By id    bar  i  -btnGo    click        break        else         System out println  inside else statement   i       i i 1

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WebElement element   driver findElement locator   Assert assertNull element     The above assertion will pass if element is not present

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