When writing your test scripts, you may find yourself needing to click a button. In many cases, this is how the call will look like:
client
.click(“#callButton”)
.pause(50000);Code language: CSS (css)What we want to do here is show a slightly different mechanism that doesn’t use the .pause() command. Instead of using pauses, Nightwatch API provides the alternative of waiting for an element based on presence and visibility.
.waitForElementPresent()
.waitForElementPresent() waits a given amount of milliseconds for an element to be present in the page before performing any other commands or assertions.
Parameters
| Name | Type | description |
| selector | string | The selector (CSS / Xpath) used to locate the element. |
| time | number | The number of milliseconds to wait. The runner performs repeated checks every 500 ms. |
| callback (Optional) | function | Optional callback function to be called when the command finishes. |
| message (Optional) | string | Optional message to be shown in the output; the message supports two placeholders: %s for current selector and %d for the time (e.g. Element %s was not in the page for %d ms). |
Examples
client.waitForElementPresent('body', 1000);
// continue if failed
client.waitForElementPresent('body', 1000, false);
// with callback
client.waitForElementPresent('body', 1000, function() {
// do something while we're here
});
// custom Error message
client.waitForElementPresent('body', 1000, 'Element is not present!');
// many combinations possible - the message is always the last argument
client.waitForElementPresent('body', 1000, false, function() {}, ' Element is not present');Code language: JavaScript (javascript).waitForElementVisible()
.waitForElementVisible() waits a given time in milliseconds for an element to be visible in the page before performing any other commands or assertions.
Parameters
| Name | Type | description |
| Selector | string | The selector (CSS / Xpath) used to locate the element. |
| Time | number | The number of milliseconds to wait. The runner performs repeated checks every 500 ms. |
| callback Optional | function | Optional callback function to be called when the command finishes. |
| message Optional | string | Optional message to be shown in the output; the message supports two placeholders: %s for current selector and %d for the time (e.g. Element %s was not in the page for %d ms). |
Examples
client.waitForElementVisible('body', 1000);
// continue if failed
client.waitForElementVisible('body', 1000, false);
// with callback
client.waitForElementVisible('body', 1000, function() {
// do something while we're here
});
// custom Error message
client.waitForElementVisible('body', 1000, 'Element not visible!');
// many combinations possible - the message is always the last argument
client.waitForElementVisible('body', 1000, false, function() {}, 'Element not visible!');Code language: JavaScript (javascript)