Hi Bernd, personally I use something like <not> <verifyXPath xpath="//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'foo'"/> </not>
but that's nearly as ugly as your proposition ;-( In general the <not> construct is very powerful but in this case something like verifyElementNotPresent could perhaps make sense. Cheers, Marc. PS: congratulation for the nice blog on Dierk's WebTest session at Grails Exchange (in fact for the whole serie) -- Blog: http://mguillem.wordpress.com Bernd Schiffer wrote: > Hi. > > What's the simplest way to assert that a element with an id (!) is _not_ > present on a page? > > Something like > <not> > <verifyElementText > htmlId="foo" > regex="true" > text=".*" /> > </not> > > But that's ugly and I think there must be a simpler way in WebTest, though > I'm not that familiar with this tool so far. > > Thanks in advance, > Bernd _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest

