How to Check if Element is Enabled or Disabled in Selenium - Step by Step

To verify whether the target element (Button, Checkbox, Dropdown, text box, Radio Button, Icons, etc ) is enabled or disabled, use the isEnabled() Method.

Here, Element is disabled means the element is present on the webpage but not in editable mode. While working on a real-time project where we have to check whether the element is enabled or not. For example, if some on automating the checkbox, then first they have to check if the checkbox is disabled in Selenium.

Verify element enabled or disabled in Selenium (eg. Checkbox, Button)

What is the isEnabled() Method in Selenium?

isEnabled() Method

In Selenium Webdriver isEnabled() method will verify and return a true value if the specified element is enabled. Otherwise, it will return a false value.

Syntax:

The syntax for How to Use isEnabled() with Examples is given below.

boolean FirstName= driver.findElement(By.id("fname")).isEnabled(); System.out.print(FirstName);

How to Use isEnabled() with Examples

Selenium Code

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class FacebookLogin {

     public static void main(String[] args) {
           // TODO Auto-generated method stub
           System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Software\\chromedriver.exe");
           WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();
           driver.get("https://www.facebook.com");

           //To verify that Element is Enabled
           Boolean nn =driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[ @type=\"text\"]")).isEnabled();
     if(nn) {
           System.out.println("Yes ! Element is enabled");
     }
     else {
           System.out.println("NO ! Element is disabled");
     }

}
}