Assert that a WebElement is not present using Selenium WebDriver with java

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In tests that I write  if I want to assert a WebElement is present on the page  I can do a simple   driver findElement By linkText  Test Search       This will pass if it exists and it will bomb out if it does not exist   But now I want to assert that a link does not exist   I am unclear how to do this since the code above does not return a boolean   EDIT This is how I came up with my own fix  I m wondering if there s a better way out there still   public static void assertLinkNotPresent  WebDriver driver  String text  throws Exception   List lt WebElement gt  bob   driver findElements By linkText text      if  bob isEmpty      false        throw new Exception  text      Link is present

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findElement will check the html source and will return true even if the element is not displayed  To check whether an element is displayed or not use -  private boolean verifyElementAbsent String locator  throws Exception            boolean visible   driver findElement By xpath locator   isDisplayed            boolean result    visible          System out println result           return result

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You can utlilize Arquillian Graphene framework for this  So example for your case could be   Graphene element By linkText text   isPresent   apply driver      Is also provides you bunch of nice API s for working with Ajax  fluent waits  page objects  fragments and so on  It definitely eases a Selenium based test development a lot

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The way that I have found best - and also to show in Allure report as fail - is to try-catch the findelement and in the catch block  set the assertTrue to false  like this       try           element   driver findElement By linkText  Test Search          catch Exception e            assertTrue false   Test Search link was not displayed

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It looks like findElements   only returns quickly if it finds at least one element   Otherwise it waits for the implicit wait timeout  before returning zero elements - just like findElement     To keep the speed of the test good  this example temporarily shortens the implicit wait  while waiting for the element to disappear   static final int TIMEOUT   10   public void checkGone String id        FluentWait lt WebDriver gt  wait   new WebDriverWait driver  TIMEOUT               ignoring StaleElementReferenceException class        driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 1  TimeUnit SECONDS       try           wait until ExpectedConditions numberOfElementsToBe By id id   0          finally           resetTimeout             void resetTimeout         driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait TIMEOUT  TimeUnit SECONDS       Still looking for a way to avoid the timeout completely though

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For appium 1 6 0 and above      WebElement button    new WebDriverWait driver  10  until ExpectedConditions presenceOfElementLocated By xpath    XCUIElementTypeButton  name  your button             button click         Assert assertTrue  button isDisplayed

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Not Sure which version of selenium you are referring to  however some commands in selenium   can now do this  http   release seleniumhq org selenium-core 0 8 0 reference html   assertNotSomethingSelected  assertTextNotPresent    Etc

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Not an answer to the very question but perhaps an idea for the underlying task   When your site logic should not show a certain element  you could insert an invisible  flag  element that you check for   if condition     renderElement   else     renderElementNotShownFlag      used by Selenium test

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For node js I ve found the following to be effective way to wait for an element to no longer be present      variable to hold loop limit     var limit   5     variable to hold the loop count     var tries   0          var retry   driver findElements By xpath selector                while retry size  gt  0  amp  amp  tries  lt  limit                   driver sleep timeout   10                  tries                    retry   driver findElements By xpath selector

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boolean titleTextfield   driver findElement By id  widget polarisCommunityInput 113 title    isDisplayed    assertFalse titleTextfield   Title text field present which is not expected

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Try this -  private boolean verifyElementAbsent String locator  throws Exception       try           driver findElement By xpath locator            System out println  Element Present            return false         catch  NoSuchElementException e            System out println  Element absent            return true

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It s easier to do this   driver findElements By linkText  myLinkText    size    lt  1

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There is an Class called ExpectedConditions     By loc         Boolean notPresent   ExpectedConditions not ExpectedConditions presenceOfElementLocated loc   apply getDriver       Assert assertTrue notPresent

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With Selenium Webdriver would be something like this   assertTrue  isElementPresent By linkText  Empresas en Misi  n

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Please find below example using Selenium  until stalenessOf  and Jasmine assertion  It returns true when element is no longer attached to the DOM   const   Builder  By  Key  until     require  selenium-webdriver     it  should not find element   async      gt       const waitTime   10000     const el   await driver wait  until elementLocated By css   my-id     waitTime      const isRemoved   await driver wait until stalenessOf el   waitTime       expect isRemoved  toBe true         For ref   Selenium Until Doc

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I think that you can just catch org openqa selenium NoSuchElementException that will be thrown by driver findElement if there s no such element   import org openqa selenium NoSuchElementException         public static void assertLinkNotPresent WebDriver driver  String text        try           driver findElement By linkText text            fail  Link with text  lt     text     gt  is present          catch  NoSuchElementException ex                do nothing  link is not present  assert is passed

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