Test If Element Is Present Using Selenium Webdriver

WebDriver: check if an element exists?

You could alternatively do:

driver.findElements( By.id("...") ).size() != 0

Which saves the nasty try/catch

p.s.

Or more precisely by @JanHrcek here

!driver.findElements(By.id("...")).isEmpty()

Test if element is present using Selenium WebDriver?

Use findElements instead of findElement.

findElements will return an empty list if no matching elements are found instead of an exception.

To check that an element is present, you could try this

Boolean isPresent = driver.findElements(By.yourLocator).size() > 0

This will return true if at least one element is found and false if it does not exist.

The official documentation recommends this method:

findElement should not be used to look for non-present elements, use findElements(By) and assert zero length response instead.

How to check if element is present using Selenium with Javascript?

If you deleted the deleteButton element it's no longer available / present, so .isDisplayed() throwing a StaleElementReferenceError is expected.

You can re-search for the id 'buttonId' in a try / catch block catching any exceptions and base your assertion on that.

Something like:

let buttonIsStillThere;
try {
    buttonIsStillThere = driver.findElement(By.id('buttonId')).isDisplayed();
} catch () {
    buttonIsStillThere = false;
}

Selenium check if element exists without exception

Instead of driver.find_element you should use driver.find_elements method here.

Something like this:

if driver.find_elements_by_xpath("/div[@class='class_name']"):
    driver.find_element_by_xpath("/div[@class='class_name']").click()

Or this:

elements = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("/div[@class='class_name']")
if elements:
    elements[0].click()

driver.find_elements will return you a list of web elements matching the passed locator. In case such elements found it will return non-empty list interpreted by Python as a Boolean True while if no matches found it will give you an empty list interpreted by Python as a Boolean False

How do I determine if a WebElement exists with Selenium?

Best practice is to do what you originally suggested, use .findElements() and check for .size != 0 or you can also use my preference, .isEmpty(). You can create a Util function like the below to test if an element exists.

public boolean elementExists(By locator)
{
    return !driver.findElements(locator).isEmpty();
}

You could also build this into a function in your page object.

How to check one element is present inside another element in Selenium Webdriver with Java?

WebElement first = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@class='width-90px']"));

first.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@class='fa fa-check font-14 ']")).isDisplayed();

is working fine, if second element is not present inside first element its throwing error.

Selenium ignore if element not present

Two ways to fix it

1. Use findElements that would return a list of web element if found otherwise size of list will be 0

    try {
        if (driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(".arrow-icon ")).size() > 0 ) {
            System.out.println("Size is > 0 so there must be at least one web element, do some interaction below like click etc");
            new WebDriverWait(driver, 40).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector(".arrow-icon "))).click();
        }
        else {
            System.out.println("Size is 0, so web element must not be present, do something here that would make it available");
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
        // TODO: handle exception
    }
   

2. Use risky code inside directly try

    try {
        new WebDriverWait(driver, 40).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector(".arrow-icon "))).click();
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
        // TODO: handle exception
    } 
   

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