Is there a quick way to check if element doesn’t displayed using selenium

Question

I am checking that under some conditions button element shouldn't be displayed.

I use the following code but it lasts for 40 seconds. I need it to be quicker.

try {
  addAnotherScenarioButton.click();
  return true;
} catch (org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException e) {
  log.debug("Creating scenario button is not displayed");
  return false;
}

Here is the log result:

13:26:33 DEBUG: Checking visibility for creating scenario button
 
13:27:13 DEBUG: Creating scenario button is not displayed

Answer 1

You can use

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("Your xpath"));

Or

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.or(
    ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("Your xpath")),
    ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("Your xpath"))
));