How to make waitForElementNotPresent() work by the element id (internal id, received by element.getId())?

[MurzNN]

I need to wait when a frontend component is rerendered after clicking on the component button.

It rerenders with the same HTML content, so use CSS selectors or something similar will not work.

A possible way to check this is to wait when the previous HTML element of the component disappears by the element id (internal id), that I can get by the const elId = await browser.element('.myElement').getId().

But I can't find a way to pass this id to the function waitForElementNotPresent() - is it possible?

If not, what alternatives for my case can you suggest?

[MurzNN]

Found a solution for this challenge!

const webdriver = require("selenium-webdriver");

const el1d = await browser.element('.myElement').getId();
browser.waitForElementNotPresent(webdriver.By.id(elId));