Selenium - Wait until element is NOT visible

Question

In the code below, I attempt to wait until an element is visible:

var wait = new WebDriverWait(Driver.Instance, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
wait.Until(ExpectedCon         


        

Answer 1

I know this is old, but since I was searching for a solution to this, I thought I'd add my thoughts.

The answer given above should work if you set the IgnoreExceptionTypes property:

var wait = new WebDriverWait(Driver.Instance, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
wait.IgnoreExceptionTypes = new[] { typeof(NoSuchElementException) }
wait Until(driver => !driver.FindElement(By.Id("processing")).Displayed);

Answer 2

var wait = new WebDriverWait(Driver.Instance, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("processing")));

The idea is to wait until element is not visible. First line sets wait time that element has to disappear; here it's 10 seconds. Second line uses selenium to check if condition "invisibilityofElementLocated" is met. Element is found by its id as in topic case, that is id="processing". If element doesn't disappear in the requested period of time, a Timeout exception will be raised and the test will fail.

Answer 3

In the code below which is used to stop the driver for couple of seconds

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(20000);

Answer 4

Use invisibility method, and here is an example usage.

final public static boolean waitForElToBeRemove(WebDriver driver, final By by) {
    try {
        driver.manage().timeouts()
                .implicitlyWait(0, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(UITestBase.driver,
                DEFAULT_TIMEOUT);

        boolean present = wait
                .ignoring(StaleElementReferenceException.class)
                .ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class)
                .until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(by));

        return present;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        return false;
    } finally {
        driver.manage().timeouts()
                .implicitlyWait(DEFAULT_TIMEOUT, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    }
}