How to Check if an Element Exists with Python Selenium

Selenium is widely used for automating user interactions on a web page for testing or getting information from a web page. But in order to automate user interactions on a web page we first need to check if a particular element exists on a web page or not as we cannot click a button until it exists on a web page. So, in this article, we’ll show you a step-by-step tutorial on how to check if an element exists on a web page with Python and Selenium.

Selenium is one of the most powerful and widely used tools for web automating web applications. Whether you’re a software developer or a QA tester, Selenium is an important tool to have in your toolkit. Selenium is widely used for automating user interactions like clicking buttons, filling out the forms and many more but in order to automate user interactions we first need to check if an element exists on a web page.