diff --git a/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/commands/waitForElementNotContainsText.ts b/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/commands/waitForElementNotContainsText.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e482a627f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/commands/waitForElementNotContainsText.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import { NightwatchBrowser } from 'nightwatch'
+import EventEmitter from 'events'
+
+class WaitForElementNotContainsText extends EventEmitter {
+  command (this: NightwatchBrowser, id: string, value: string, timeout = 10000): NightwatchBrowser {
+    let waitId // eslint-disable-line
+    let currentValue
+    const runid = setInterval(() => {
+      this.api.getText(id, (result) => {
+        currentValue = result.value
+        if (typeof result.value === 'string' && result.value.indexOf(value) !== -1) {
+          clearInterval(runid)
+          clearTimeout(waitId)
+          this.api.assert.ok(false, `WaitForElementContainsText ${id} contains ${value} . It should not`)
+          this.emit('complete')
+        }
+      })
+    }, 200)
+
+    waitId = setTimeout(() => {
+      clearInterval(runid)
+      this.api.assert.fail(`TimeoutError: An error occurred while running .waitForElementContainsText() command on ${id} after ${timeout} milliseconds. expected: ${value} - got: ${currentValue}`)
+    }, timeout)
+    return this
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = WaitForElementNotContainsText
diff --git a/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/tests/terminal.test.ts b/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/tests/terminal.test.ts
index a611600e30..eb54b471f6 100644
--- a/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/tests/terminal.test.ts
+++ b/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/tests/terminal.test.ts
@@ -356,6 +356,8 @@ module.exports = {
       })
       .useCss()
       .waitForElementContainsText('*[data-id="terminalJournal"]', 'test running free function', 120000)
+      .WaitForElementNotContainsText('*[data-id="terminalJournal"]', `test running free function
+      test running free function`)
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/types/index.d.ts b/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/types/index.d.ts
index 4c356ca76f..0a793a9b7a 100644
--- a/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/types/index.d.ts
+++ b/apps/remix-ide-e2e/src/types/index.d.ts
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ declare module 'nightwatch' {
     switchWorkspace: (workspaceName: string) => NightwatchBrowser
     switchEnvironment: (provider: string) => NightwatchBrowser
     connectToExternalHttpProvider: (url: string, identifier: string) => NightwatchBrowser
+    WaitForElementNotContainsText: (id: string, value: string, timeout: number = 10000) => NightwatchBrowser
   }
 
   export interface NightwatchBrowser {