ability to assert that an element is visible/not visible on the page

[amirrajan]

Need some way to assert that an element exists on that page, or doesn't exist. It should poll for the existence of the element (like write does).

Maybe something along the lines of:

isThere "#requestedGames div"

and

isNotThere "#requestGames div"

[lefthandedgoat]

exists "#id"
notexists "#id"

that work?

[amirrajan]

exists, notExists asserts on whether the element actually is in the DOM, visible notVisible would assert that the element is hidden (or not in the DOM)...and yes...you'll have to traverse up the element hierarchy to verify if any parents are hidden or if their opacity is 0

[lefthandedgoat]

decided on exists and notExists to see if it exists from the user's perspective

domExists and domNotExists would check dom, thats the new naming convention for any method that needs to be dom aware

[amirrajan]

is this a duplicate for displayed notDisplayed?

[lefthandedgoat]

your original request is a duplicate, but we also talked about seeing if something exists, in the dom etc. Let me know if you still want that feature