checking if element is present

[littlegeek]

Is the only way to check if an element is present on the page to put
it in a try/catch block? Selenium has a 'isElementPresent' method.
Is there anything similar to that in WebDriver?

[Simon Stewart]

Yes, the only way to check is with a try/catch block (or, I suppose
"findElements" and checking to see if the returned list has no
elements in it)

The reason for this behaviour is that when I originally wrote
WebDriver, there really weren't many AJAX apps around, so not finding
an element was normally a Bad Thing. At some point, I'll be adding
implicit waits for elements, which should make things a little neater.

Regards,

Simon

[Danny Leblond]

IF you go back some pages to a thread called IE 7 problems, theres a Zip attached that does a wait for element, I think is more what your looking for. A good temporary solution until there is better AJAX support.
Danny