Difference between isDisplayed() Vs isEnabled() Vs isSelected() | WebElement Interface methods in selinium

Hi, In this post, we will see the differences between WebElement interface most commonly used methods - isDisplayed(), isEnabled() and isSelected() with real time example scenarios.


Let's look into each of them.

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isDisplayed() 

• To verify presence of a web-element with in the web page. 
• This method returns either true or false boolean values. 
• If the element is present it returns "true" otherwise it returns "false". 
• This method avoids the problem of having to parse an element's "style" attribute.
• This method can be applicable for almost all of the elements on web-page.

Example:  
HTML for : Sample

<b xpath="1">This is sample text.</b>

Selenium snippet

//isDisplayed() | Text on web page | Example : This is sample text.
WebElement ThisIsSimpleText = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//b[contains(text(),'This is sample text.')]"));
boolean b1 = ThisIsSimpleText.isDisplayed();
System.out.println("Verify dispaly status of the text \"This is sample Text\"="+b1);

isEnabled()

It has some special purpose of verifying elements such as buttons enabled or disabled status.

• To verify if an element is enabled or disabled on web-page. 
• Returns "ture" if element is enabled and returns "false" if an element is disabled. 
• Examples: Mostly used with button elements, locked/disabled text input elements. 

Example :
Refer this post for detailed example for isEnabled

isSelected() 

• Returns whether an element say check box or radio button is selected or not. 
• If selected returns "true", if not selected returns "false". 
• Examples: Check boxes, drop downs , radio buttons

Example:
HTML

<input id="male" type="radio" name="gender" value="male" xpath="1">

Selenium snippet

//isSelected()  | Example :  male radio button
WebElement maleRaditoButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='male']"));
boolean b2 = maleRaditoButton.isSelected(); //false
System.out.println("Verify male radio button selected or not before click = "+b2); 
//select the male radio button and verify isSelected()
maleRaditoButton.click();
boolean b3 = maleRaditoButton.isSelected(); //true
System.out.println("Verify male radio button selected or not after click = "+b3);

Checkout this video tutorial to understand the example below

WebElementInterfaceMethods_isDisplayedisSelectedDemo.java

package selenium.webelement.methods;

/* isDisplayed() , and isSelected() */

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.PageLoadStrategy;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

public class WebElementInterfaceMethods_isDisplayedisSelectedDemo {

 public static void main(String[] args)  {
  
  WebDriver driver;
  
  //loading Chrome driver from physical drive
  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\006_trainings\\chromedriver.exe");
  
  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.silentOutput", "true");
  //System.setProperty(ChromeDriverService.CHROME_DRIVER_SILENT_OUTPUT_PROPERTY, "true");
  
  //launch the browser
  driver = new ChromeDriver();
  
  //navigate to site
  driver.navigate().to("https://www.testandquiz.com/selenium/testing.html");
  
  //maximize the browser
  driver.manage().window().maximize();
  
  //isDisplayed() | Text on web page | Example : This is sample text.
  WebElement ThisIsSimpleText = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//b[contains(text(),'This is sample text.')]"));
  boolean b1 = ThisIsSimpleText.isDisplayed();
  System.out.println("Verify dispaly status of the text \"This is sample Text\"="+b1);

  //isSelected()  | Example :  male radio button
  WebElement maleRaditoButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='male']"));
  boolean b2 = maleRaditoButton.isSelected();
  System.out.println("Verify male radio button selected or not before click = "+b2);
  
  //select the male radio button and verify isSelected()
  maleRaditoButton.click();
  boolean b3 = maleRaditoButton.isSelected();
  System.out.println("Verify male radio button selected or not after click = "+b3);
  
  
  //close the browser
  driver.close();
  
  //close all the browsers opened by WebDriver during execution and quit the session
  driver.quit();
 }
}