Test if element is present but for Powershell

[ALIEN Quake]

I've added Selenium WebDriver to the Powershell and create WebDriver instance:

Add-Type -path C:\Windows\net40\WebDriver.dll

$driver = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox.FirefoxDriver

$driver.Url = "https://www.google.com"

Now I want to find input field:

$singleRecord = ($driver.FindElementByCssSelector("input.gbqfif"))

I found several examples how to "Test if element is present" in C#:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7991522/selenium-webdriver-test-if-element-is-present

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6992993/selenium-c-sharp-webdriver-wait-until-element-is-present

There is also guide here: http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp#explicit-waits

IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.Url = "http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading";

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));

IWebElement myDynamicElement = wait.Until<IWebElement>((d) =>

    {

        return d.FindElement(By.Id("someDynamicElement"));

    });

but I cannot create something similar in Powershell, and almost all my tests fails because it takes time for page to load elements.

[Dan K]

This is an old post, but I had trouble with this as well - you can set up an implicit wait as detailed here: http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp

like this:
$driver = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox.FirefoxDriver
$wait = New-TimeSpan -seconds 10
$driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait( $wait)

[ALIEN Quake]

Hi, thanks for reply but this doesn't solve my problem at all. Some websites just hangs whole automation process fails.