Puppeteer - Wait For Element After Selector

Question

I have an HTML table with data like

Username	is admin	Actions
New User	✓	Make Admin
Old User		Make Admin

After clicking "Make Admin", how do I wait for the check mark to show up?

I figured out how to look for the checkmark:

const checkmarkText = await page.$eval(`text/${new_user}`, e=>{
    return e.nextSibling.innerHTML;
});

But I'm not sure how to do a .waitForSelector(???) waiting for this checkmark.

For what it's worth, the HTML is very simple like this:

<tr>
    <td>
        New User
    </td>
    <td>
        ✓
    </td>
    <td>
        ...
    </td>
</tr>

Try using Puppeteer's waitForFunction? pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.page.waitforfunction — Plonetheus
– Plonetheus, Commented Nov 6 at 19:53

ggorlen · Accepted Answer · 2025-11-06 20:05:16Z

You can use page.waitForFunction to wait for an arbitrary predicate like this.

Here's the site we're testing. After 2 seconds the checkmark appears:

<!DOCTYPE html><html><body>
<table><tbody><tr>
  <td>
    New User
  </td>
  <td>

  </td>
  <td>
    ...
  </td>
</tr></tbody></table>
<script>
setTimeout(() => {
  const td = [...document.querySelectorAll("td")][1];
  td.textContent = "✓";
}, 2000);
</script></body></html>

Here's the full code to wait for this checkmark:

const puppeteer = require("puppeteer"); // ^24.20.0

const html = `<!DOCTYPE html><html><body>
<table><tbody><tr>
  <td>
    New User
  </td>
  <td></td>
  <td>...</td>
</tr></tbody></table><script>
setTimeout(() => {
  const td = [...document.querySelectorAll("td")][1];
  td.textContent = "✓";
}, 2000);
</script></body></html>`;

let browser;
(async () => {
  browser = await puppeteer.launch();
  const [page] = await browser.pages();
  await page.setContent(html);
  console.log("waiting for checkmark...");
  await page.waitForFunction((newUser) => {
    const newUserEl = [...document.querySelectorAll("td")]
      .find(el => el.textContent.trim() === newUser);
    return newUserEl?.nextElementSibling?.textContent?.trim() === "✓";
  }, {}, "New User");
  console.log("checkmark is guaranteed to exist at this point");
})()
  .catch(err => console.error(err))
  .finally(() => browser?.close());

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