Matching any text present on the visible html page

Question

Suppose I have an add question facility but can't add same question in the form. So need to check whether the question is already visible on the screen, if not then add it.

I am not getting how to match a string value to the content of a form. is it possible to do so with selenium webdriver. Or if there is any other way to achieve this? I just need to check a text whether displayed on the screen or not.

Answer 1

When you use driver.getPageSource() it gives you entire page source. To be more efficient, use something like this:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(.,.)]"));

return element.getText.contains(data);

Answer 2

Something like this should work:

public boolean isTextOnPagePresent(String text) {
    WebElement body = driver.findElement(By.tagName("body"));
    String bodyText = body.getText();
    return bodyText.contains(text);
}

Currently I have no possibility to test that. If it should not work, you could try to use getPageSource() instead of get the text of the body tag. But this does not furfill the "on the visible html page" part of your question.