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ChanGan
ChanGan

Reputation: 4318

To verify that element is displayed or not in selenium?

public boolean addNewAlertIsDisplayed() {       
    if(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class='aside right am-slide-right']")).isDisplayed()) {
    return true;
    }
    else {
        return false;
    }
}

I am expecting false if it is not there..

But getting:

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to find element with xpath == //*[@class='aside right am-slide-right'] (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

Why this exception is coming.. Is this needs to be handled in try/catch?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 489

Answers (2)

Andrei
Andrei

Reputation: 5637

Try this:

public boolean addNewAlertIsDisplayed() {
  List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[@class='aside right am-slide-right']"));
  return elements.size() > 0 && elements.get(0).isDisplayed();
}

If there are no elements it won't throw any exception. It will just be a list of size 0. Also as @Corey Goldberg mentioned, there should be checked if this element actually displayed. I forgot to add this to method.

Upvotes: 1

Subburaj
Subburaj

Reputation: 2334

Please check and use any one of the below two approaches.

Approach 1: you can find the Element using findElements method.If the element is found, then elementList size will be 1 or more than 1 and If the element is not found, then size will be 0. So, we can return the flag based on the condition, 

    public boolean addNewAlertIsDisplayed(){
        List<WebElement> elementList=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//*[@class='aside right am-slide-right']"));

        //If the Element is not present , then the above list size will be 0, else it will have some value
        if(elementList.size()>0){
                return true;
        }else{
            return false;
        }
    }

Approach 2: You can check the element present using the try catch block as below

    public boolean addNewAlertIsDisplayed(){
        try{
            driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class='aside right am-slide-right']"));
            return true;
        }catch(NoSuchElementException e ){
                return false;
        }
    }

Upvotes: 2

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