Using Selenium2, how do I check if certain text exists on the page?

Question

I am using the C# Selenium WebDriver and I would like to confirm that certain text exists on the page.

How do I do this? All the selectors seem to use IDs, Classes etc. I don't care where the text is on the page, I just want to make sure it exists somewhere on the page.

Any thoughts?

PS: I can do this using JQuery and Javascript, but apparently that's not supported in all browser drivers:

protected bool TextIsOnThePage(string textToFind)
{
    var javascriptExecutor = ((IJavaScriptExecutor)_driver);
    bool textFound = Convert.ToBoolean(javascriptExecutor.ExecuteScript(string.Format("return $('*:contains(\"{0}\")').length > 0", textToFind)));

    return textFound;
}

Answer 1

Here's an updated version using Selenium WebDriver 2.48.0

IWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(DesiredCapabilities.Firefox());
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://stackoverflow.com/");
IWebElement body = driver.FindElement(By.TagName("body"));

Assert.IsTrue(body.Text.Contains("Top Questions"));

Note: The Assert is an Nunit assert, you can obviously use whichever assertion method you prefer. I'm also using the RemoteWebDriver and Firefox for this example.

Answer 2

WebElement bodyTag = driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")); 
if (bodyTag.getText().contains("Text I am looking for") { 
  // do something 
} 

or find a speific div

or you can use the Selenium class WebDriverBasedSelenium and do something like

var selenium=new WebDriverBasedSelenium(driver,url);

selenium.IsTextPresent("text")