Wait until element is not present

Question

I'm using selenium in Python 2.7 and I have this code, but I'm looking for a more efficient way to do this:

while True:
    try:
        element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
            EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'button'))
        )   
    except:
        break

Mahsum Akbas · Accepted Answer · 2022-05-07 08:03:44Z

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 element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(
            EC.invisibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'button')))

you don't need to use while. it already waits for time that you present in WebDriverWait() function.

edited May 7, 2022 at 8:03

answered Sep 22, 2015 at 12:52

Mahsum Akbas

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5 Comments

User Over a year ago

I want the opposite, when the element is not present.

Mahsum Akbas Over a year ago

you mean, you want to wait for element become invisible/unpresent?

justnpT Over a year ago

invisibility of element is a bit different from presence of element, so this is not a precise answer to this question. The above is an answer to a different but very similar question about invisibility.

Biswajit Chopdar Over a year ago

A closing bracket ")" is missing from the function.

vitaliis Over a year ago

I would add try/except to this code. What if an element is not present? There will be StaleElementReferenceException

dmr · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-22 13:49:56Z

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1) Use staleness_of from expected condition

class staleness_of(object):
""" Wait until an element is no longer attached to the DOM.
element is the element to wait for.
returns False if the element is still attached to the DOM, true otherwise.
"""

2) WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until_not(...)

edited Sep 22, 2015 at 13:49

answered Sep 22, 2015 at 13:02

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