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S. ShuklaPractical WebDriverIOhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6661-8_4

4. Element APIs and WebdriverIO Assertions

Shashank Shukla1  
(1)
Mandla, India
 
In the previous chapter, you learned about browser-specific APIs. This chapter discusses element-specific APIs. You use various assertions provided natively by WebdriverIO. Broadly, this chapter covers the following topics.

  • APIs and assertions

  • Presence or absence of elements

  • Selected and unselected elements

  • Displayed or hidden elements

  • Enabled and disabled elements

  • Clickable and unclickable elements

WebdriverIO element APIs and assertions have one basic difference. Element APIs/commands return true or false values. ...

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