isElementPresent in selenium 2.0

Question

Hello all I am using webdriver so if I want to use selenium;s rc function isElementPresent I have to emulate selenium rc so I do something like this:

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Answer 1

In the Selenium 2 world, if you want to find if an element is present you would just wrap the find call in a try catch because if it isnt present it will throw an error.

try{
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div"));
}catch(ElementNotFound e){
  //its not been found
}