CODEWITHSUNDEEP
watir-webdriver
user1736480
user1736480

Reputation: 11

Possible to isElementPresent(:id, "id") in watir webdriver

Using Watir Webdriver, I wanted to have a helper that would check for any element with given id. I may not know what type it is ( button or link or text). Can I just do

browser.Element(:id, id).exists

All of the examples i've found on google check against a specific element type, as in

browser.button(:id," ").exits

If there is a way, please share the syntax.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 217

Answers (3)

continuousqa
continuousqa

Reputation: 508

I've never gotten .exists? to work right on it's own.

What I've had to use in these cases has been to explicitly validate the "exist?"... like:

cf_checbox = @browser.text_field(:id=>'continue-ring', :value=>true).exists?

assert( cf_description == true)

without that explicit assertion, I would always get a "true" even when the value didn't exist.

Upvotes: 0

Željko Filipin
Željko Filipin

Reputation: 57312

As Dave points out, there is #element method. (You were wrong just in capitalization, it is not #Element.)

Since you are asking about accessing it using id attribute, try this:

browser.element(:id => id)

Upvotes: 0

Dave McNulla
Dave McNulla

Reputation: 2016

In Watir-Webdriver, I would use something like this:

browser.element(class: 'post-tag').exists?

which would find the watir-webdriver tag on this page and report that it exists. Note that I used the 1.9 syntax instead of the alternative syntaxes of:

browser.element(:class => 'post-tag').exists?

or 

browser.element(:class, 'post-tag').exists?

Upvotes: 2

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