Selenium IDE: How to continue script on element not found or on error

Question

I need your help. I just want to continue my Selenium IDE script on Firefox even there's an error or element not found. I'm using script with HTML format.

Answer 1

You have to make an explicit check if an element is present before using this element in the next command (which might cause an error and break an execution of a script). User extension "sideflow" enables conditional jumps inside your code.

Here is home page of sideflow extension: https://github.com/darrenderidder/sideflow

With sideflow extension you may use code like this:

storeElementPresent id=btnRecSearch isPresent
gotoIf  ${isPresent} == false   End
click   id=btnRecSearch 
....
label   End

Answer 2

This example is for the new Selenium IDE version 3 that works on Firefox and Chrome. The basic premise:

1) store xpath count -- this saves the count of elements that match to a variable

store xpath count | xpath=//body[@id='error-page'] | error

2) if -- in this case test the count is more than 0

if | ${error} > 0

3) do some magic stuff

4) end

end

Here is an article I posted using the same example: http://lance.bio/2018/12/21/selenium-ide-if-element-exists/

Answer 3

If you use all verify related command then your script do not stop if element is not found by seleniun IDE but if you use assert related command then your script is stop if that element is not found by selenium ide

If have to create your script using verifytext command then run that script and see your script will not stop if element is not displayed