Question

NoSuchElement exception is not coming when webElement not found in a page in webdriver

when webelement is available in a page, all the operation done on that webelement will work, but if the webelement is not available in that page, then ideally when we do any operation on that webelement it should throw a exception. But for me no exception is coming and the test does not respond , even on debugging it does not respond at that place.

Can anyone tell me y this is happening ?

Answer 1

Try by setting implicit timeout for finding the element

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
try {
    driver.findElement(By.id("element_id"));
    System.out.println("Element Found");
} catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
    System.out.println("Element Not Found");
}