Protractor : wait for element to become invisible/hidden

Question

I saw other protractor related post mentioning about how to wait for an element to become visible. However, recently, I ran into an opposite use case. I wanted to wait for an element until it becomes invisible. Since I could not find anything specific about it. I went ahead and came up with a solution.

var ptor = protractor.getInstance();
    ptor.wait(function() {

        return element(by.css('#my-css-here')).isDisplayed().then(function(isVisible){
            console.log('is visible :' + isVisible);
            return !isVisible;
        });

    }, 12000).then(function(){
        //do whatever you want 
});

hopefully it helps. any suggestion is welcome.

Thanks,

Answer 1

Using the elementexplorer (https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/debugging.md) I looked at the protractor object and found an answer that is working wonderfully for me:

var el = element(by.id('visibleElementId'));
browser.driver.wait(protractor.until.elementIsNotVisible(el));