Equivalent of isTextPresent of Selenium 1 (Selenium RC) in Selenium 2 (WebDriver)

Question

There's no isTextPresent in Selenium 2 (WebDriver)

What is the correct way to assert the existence of some text on a page with WebDriver?

Answer 1

I normally do something along the lines of:

assertEquals(driver.getPageSource().contains("sometext"), true);

assertTrue(driver.getPageSource().contains("sometext"));

Answer 2

Page source contains HTML tags which might break your search text and result in false negatives. I found this solution works much like Selenium RC's isTextPresent API.

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); //or some other driver
driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).getText().contains("Some text to search")

doing getText and then contains does have a performance trade-off. You might want to narrow down search tree by using a more specific WebElement.