vb.net Selenium How to implement 'if webelement exists then do some stuff'?

Question

I tried these(in scenario when the element does not exist) and always getting

OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException

If driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@id='username']")).Displayed = True Then
     driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@id='username']")).Click()
 End If

  If driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@id='username']")) = True Then
        driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@id='username']")).Click()

    If driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@id='username']")).Displayed Then
        driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[@id='username']")).Click()

Use `.FindElements()` and check that the count is > 0. – JeffC Dec 31 '18 at 05:58 — JeffC, Dec 31 '18 at 05:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 31 '18 at 03:57

You need to use try catch block to handle this & then execute the action on the element if it isn't null.Something like this :

webelement ele = null
try
{
   ele = driver.FindElement("your condition");
}
catch(NoSuchElementException ex)
{
  #do-nothing
}
if(ele != null)
{
   #perform your action
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 31 '18 at 04:11

0

Assuming that the WebDriver API is the same for VB as it is for Java, you can use the same approach as suggested here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9188374/5803406.

answered Dec 31 '18 at 04:11

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