Selenium c# Webdriver: Wait Until Element is Present

You can also use

ExpectedConditions.ElementExists

So you will search for an element availability like that

new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeOut)).Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementExists((By.Id(login))));

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Was searching how to wait in Selenium for condition, landed in this thread and here is what I use now:

    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(m_driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
    wait.Until(d => ReadCell(row, col) != "");

ReadCell(row, col) != "" can be any condition. Like this way because:

• it's mine
• allows inlining

Inspired by Loudenvier's solution, here's an extension method that works for all ISearchContext objects, not just IWebDriver, which is a specialization of the former. This method also supports waiting until the element is displayed.

static class WebDriverExtensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Find an element, waiting until a timeout is reached if necessary.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="context">The search context.</param>
    /// <param name="by">Method to find elements.</param>
    /// <param name="timeout">How many seconds to wait.</param>
    /// <param name="displayed">Require the element to be displayed?</param>
    /// <returns>The found element.</returns>
    public static IWebElement FindElement(this ISearchContext context, By by, uint timeout, bool displayed=false)
    {
        var wait = new DefaultWait<ISearchContext>(context);
        wait.Timeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeout);
        wait.IgnoreExceptionTypes(typeof(NoSuchElementException));
        return wait.Until(ctx => {
            var elem = ctx.FindElement(by);
            if (displayed && !elem.Displayed)
                return null;

            return elem;
        });
    }
}

Example usage:

var driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://localhost");
var main = driver.FindElement(By.Id("main"));
var btn = main.FindElement(By.Id("button"));
btn.Click();
var dialog = main.FindElement(By.Id("dialog"), 5, displayed: true);
Assert.AreEqual("My Dialog", dialog.Text);
driver.Close();

I see multiple solutions already posted that work great! However, just in case anyone needs something else, I thought I would post two solutions that I personally used in selenium C# to test if an element is present! Hope it helps, cheers!

public static class IsPresent
{
    public static bool isPresent(this IWebDriver driver, By bylocator)
    {

        bool variable = false;
        try
        {
            IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(bylocator);
            variable = element != null;
        }
       catch (NoSuchElementException){

       }
        return variable; 
    }

}

Here is the second

    public static class IsPresent2
{
    public static bool isPresent2(this IWebDriver driver, By bylocator)
    {
        bool variable = true; 
        try
        {
            IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(bylocator);

        }
        catch (NoSuchElementException)
        {
            variable = false; 
        }
        return variable; 
    }

}

You can find out something like this in C# .

This is what i used in Junit - Selenium

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 100); WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("submit")));

Do import related packages

Here's a variation of @Loudenvier's solution that also works for getting multiple elements:

public static class WebDriverExtensions
{
    public static IWebElement FindElement(this IWebDriver driver, By by, int timeoutInSeconds)
    {
        if (timeoutInSeconds > 0)
        {
            var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));
            return wait.Until(drv => drv.FindElement(by));
        }
        return driver.FindElement(by);
    }

    public static ReadOnlyCollection<IWebElement> FindElements(this IWebDriver driver, By by, int timeoutInSeconds)
    {
        if (timeoutInSeconds > 0)
        {
            var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));
            return wait.Until(drv => (drv.FindElements(by).Count > 0) ? drv.FindElements(by) : null);
        }
        return driver.FindElements(by);
    }
}

The clickAndWait command doesn't get converted when you choose the Webdriver format in the Selenium IDE. Here is the workaround. Add the wait line below. Realistically, the problem was the click or event that happened before this one--line 1 in my C# code. But really, just make sure you have a WaitForElement before any action where you're referencing a "By" object.

HTML code:

<a href="http://www.google.com">xxxxx</a>

C#/NUnit code:

driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("z")).Click;
driver.WaitForElement(By.LinkText("xxxxx"));
driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("xxxxx")).Click();

        //wait up to 5 seconds with no minimum for a UI element to be found
        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(_pagedriver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
        IWebElement title = wait.Until<IWebElement>((d) =>
        {
            return d.FindElement(By.ClassName("MainContentHeader"));
        });

Using the solution provided by Mike Kwan may have an impact in overall testing performance, since the implicit wait will be used in all FindElement calls. Many times you'll want the FindElement to fail right away when an element is not present (you're testing for a malformed page, missing elements, etc.). With the implicit wait these operations would wait for the whole timeout to expire before throwing the exception.

I've written a little extension method to to IWebDriver that adds a timeout (in seconds) parameter to the FindElement() method. It's quite self-explanatory:

public static class WebDriverExtensions
{
    public static IWebElement FindElement(this IWebDriver driver, By by, int timeoutInSeconds)
    {
        if (timeoutInSeconds > 0)
        {
            var wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutInSeconds));
            return wait.Until(drv => drv.FindElement(by));
        }
        return driver.FindElement(by);
    }
}

I didn't cache the WebDriverWait object as its creation is very cheap, this extension may be used simultaneously for different WebDriver objects, and I only do optimizations when ultimately needed.

Usage is straight-forward:

var driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://localhost/mypage");
var btn = driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("#login_button"));
btn.Click();
var employeeLabel = driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("#VCC_VSL"), 10);
Assert.AreEqual("Employee", employeeLabel.Text);
driver.Close();

I Confused anyomous function with predicate. Heres a little helper method:

   WebDriverWait wait;
    private void waitForById(string id) 
    {
        if (wait == null)            
            wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, new TimeSpan(0,0,5));

        //wait.Until(driver);
        wait.Until(d => d.FindElement(By.Id(id)));
    }