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Ramasamy Raja
Ramasamy Raja

Reputation: 139

WebDriver - How to make the webdriver to wait until text displayed (without using locator)

I have performed an action on WebDriver (Say, I clicked a button), resultant is a text will display on page.

We do not know locator element for the text, but we do know what text will display.

Please suggest a way to wait for the text to display.

I have come across WebDriverWait, but it requires WebElement to wait for text.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 11518

Answers (3)

Norayr Sargsyan
Norayr Sargsyan

Reputation: 1868

For waiting text to be displayed in element:

private ExpectedCondition elementTextDisplayed(WebElement element, String text) {
        return new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
            public Boolean apply(WebDriver driver) {
                return element.getText().equals(text);
            }
        };
    }

 protected void waitForElementTextDisplayed(WebElement element, String text) {
        wait.until(elementTextDisplayed(element, text));
    }

or

public void waitUntilTextToBePresentInElement(WebElement element, String text){
        wait.until(ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElement(element, text));
}

Upvotes: 0

groovy
groovy

Reputation: 48

WebDriverWait can be used even if you don't know the exact element. If the expected text only has 1 occurrence on the page, you can reach it through an Xpath like this:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, numberOfSeconds);    
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'my text')]")));

Upvotes: 1

Saifur
Saifur

Reputation: 16201

Go for xpath text based search. It allows you to find an element based on the text

// with * we are doing tag indepenedent search. If you know the tag, say it's a `div`, then //div[contains(text(),'Text To find')] can be done
By byXpath = By.xpath("//*[contains(text(),'Text To find')]"); 
WebElement myDynamicElement = (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10))
  .until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(byXpath));

Upvotes: 11

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