Question

How to check if an Element exists, when using Page Objects with webdriver.

So far I am doing it this way.

DefaultPage defaultPage = PageFactory.initElements(this.driver,
      DefaultPage.class);
assertTrue(defaultPage.isUserCreateMenuLinkPresent());

Page Object:

public class DefaultPage {     
    @FindBy(id = "link_i_user_create")
    private WebElement userCreateMenuLink;


    public boolean isUserCreateMenuLinkPresent() {
        try {
            this.userCreateMenuLink.getTagName();
            return true;
        } catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
            return false;
        }
    }
 }

But I can not believe that this try/catch is the way one should do it. So what would be a better way to check if the elements exits (with using Page Objects)?

Answer 1

Webdriver is designed to throw an exception if an element is not found, So there aren’t any methods to verify presence of an element in Webdriver.

Check this – http://groups.google.com/group/webdriver/browse_thread/thread/909a9b6cb568e341