How to check if some text is present on a web page using selenium 2?

Question

Hi I am using selenium to automate test on web pages. I am using selenium 2 and python and would like to have answers in this framework only. SO how do I check whether some text

Answer 1

You can use driver.page_source and a simple regular expression to check if the text exists:

import re    
src = driver.page_source
text_found = re.search(r'text_to_search', src)
self.assertNotEqual(text_found, None)