Wait for page load in Selenium

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How do you make Selenium 2 0 wait for the page to load

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You can explicitly wait for an element to show up on the webpage before you can take any action (like element.click())

driver.get("http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading");
WebElement myDynamicElement = (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10))
  .until(new ExpectedCondition<WebElement>(){
        @Override
        public WebElement apply(WebDriver d) {
        return d.findElement(By.id("myDynamicElement"));
}});

This is what I used for a similar scenario and it works fine.

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Use   driver manage   timeOuts   implicitlyWait 10  TimeUnit SECONDS     Which means any search for the elements on the web page could take time to load  The implicitlyWait is set before throwing an exception  The TimeUnit displays whichever way you want to wait in  seconds  minutes  hours and days

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You can try this code to let the page load completely until element is found   public void waitForBrowserToLoadCompletely         String state   null      String oldstate   null      try           System out print  Waiting for browser loading to complete             int i   0          while  i  lt  5                Thread sleep 1000               state     JavascriptExecutor  driver  executeScript  return document readyState    toString                System out print       Character toUpperCase state charAt 0                       if  state equals  interactive      state equals  loading                    break                                If browser in  complete  state since last X seconds  Return                               if  i    1  amp  amp  state equals  complete                      System out println                    return                            i                      i   0          oldstate   null          Thread sleep 2000                          Now wait for state to become complete                     while  true                state     JavascriptExecutor  driver  executeScript  return document readyState    toString                System out print       state charAt 0                      if  state equals  complete                    break               if  state equals oldstate                   i                else                 i   0                                If browser state is same  loading interactive  since last 60                secs  Refresh the page                              if  i    15  amp  amp  state equals  loading                      System out println   nBrowser in     state     state since last 60 secs  So refreshing browser                     driver navigate   refresh                    System out print  Waiting for browser loading to complete                    i   0                else if  i    6  amp  amp  state equals  interactive                      System out println                            nBrowser in     state     state since last 30 secs  So starting with execution                     return                             Thread sleep 4000               oldstate   state                     System out println           catch  InterruptedException ie            ie printStackTrace

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You can use this snippet of code for the page to load        IWait wait   new OpenQA Selenium Support UI WebDriverWait driver TimeSpan FromSeconds 30 00        wait Until driver1      IJavaScriptExecutor driver  ExecuteScript  return document readyState   Equals  complete       Or you can use waiter for any element to be loaded and become visible clickable on that page  most probably which is going to be load at the end of loading like        Wait Until ExpectedConditions ElementToBeClickable By XPath xpathOfElement        var element   GlobalDriver FindElement By XPath xpathOfElement        var isSucceededed   element    null

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You can use wait  there are basically 2 types of wait in selenium   Implicit wait Explicit wait   - Implicit wait  This is very simple please see syntax below   driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 20  TimeUnit SECONDS     - Explicit wait  Explicitly wait or conditional wait in this wait until given condition is occurred   WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  40   WebElement element   wait until ExpectedConditions elementToBeClickable By id  someid        You can use other properties like visblityOf    visblityOfElement

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driver asserts   assertElementFound  Page was not loaded   By xpath    div  id  actionsContainer     Constants LOOKUP TIMEOUT

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The easiest way is just wait for some element which will appear on loaded page   If you would like to click on some button already after page is loaded you could use await and click   await   until   at most 20  TimeUnit Seconds  some element isDisplayed       or another condition getDriver   find some element  click

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The best way to wait for page loads when using the Java bindings for WebDriver is to use the Page Object design pattern with PageFactory  This allows you to utilize the AjaxElementLocatorFactory which to put it simply acts as a global wait for all of your elements  It has limitations on elements such as drop-boxes or complex javascript transitions but it will drastically reduce the amount of code needed and speed up test times  A good example can be found in this blogpost  Basic understanding of Core Java is assumed   http   startingwithseleniumwebdriver blogspot ro 2015 02 wait-in-page-factory html

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use a if condition and for any of the element present   try       Thread sleep 1000     catch  InterruptedException e           TODO Auto-generated catch block     e printStackTrace

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You may remove the System out line  It is added for debug purposes   WebDriver driver    public void waitForPageLoad          Wait lt WebDriver gt  wait   new WebDriverWait driver   30       wait until new Function lt WebDriver  Boolean gt              public Boolean apply WebDriver driver                System out println  Current Window State                             String valueOf   JavascriptExecutor  driver  executeScript  return document readyState                  return String                  valueOf   JavascriptExecutor  driver  executeScript  return document readyState                     equals  complete

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WebDriver driver   new ff   chrome   anyDriverYouWish    driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 10  TimeUnit SECONDS   Waits maximum of 10 Seconds  WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  10   wait until ExpectedConditions visibilityOf WebElement element    FluentWait lt Driver gt  fluentWait   fluentWait   new FluentWait lt  gt  driver  withTimeout 30  TimeUnit SECONDS               pollingEvery 200  TimeUnit MILLISECONDS               ignoring NoSuchElementException class     The advantage of the last option is that you can include exception to be expected  so that your execution continues

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Call below Function in your script   this will wait till page is not loaded using javascript  public static boolean isloadComplete WebDriver driver        return   JavascriptExecutor  driver  executeScript  return document readyState   equals  loaded                    JavascriptExecutor  driver  executeScript  return document readyState   equals  complete

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NodeJS Solution   In Nodejs you can get it via promises     If you write this code  you can be sure that the page is fully loaded when you get to the then     driver get  www sidanmor com   then     gt           here the page is fully loaded           do your stuff       catch console log bind console      If you write this code  you will navigate  and selenium will wait 3 seconds     driver get  www sidanmor com    driver sleep 3000      you can t be sure that the page is fully loaded       do your stuff    hope it will be OK      From Selenium documentation   this get  url     Thenable  Schedules a command to navigate to the given URL   Returns a promise that will be resolved when the document has finished loading   Selenium Documentation  Nodejs

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Use this function  public void waitForPageLoad ChromeDriver d           String s             while  s equals  complete             s  String  d executeScript  return document readyState            try               Thread sleep 1000             catch  InterruptedException e                   TODO Auto-generated catch block             e printStackTrace

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Use class WebDriverWait  Also see here  You can expect to show some element  something like in C    WebDriver  driver   new WebDriver    WebDriverWait  wait   new WebDriverWait  driver  new TimeSpan 0  1  0      wait Until d   gt  d FindElement By Id  Id Your UIElement

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How to get Selenium to wait for page load after a click provides the following interesting approach    Store a reference to a WebElement from the old page  Click the link  Keep on invoking operations on the WebElement until StaleElementReferenceException is thrown    Sample code   WebElement link        link click    new WebDriverWait webDriver  timeout  until  org openqa selenium WebDriver input  - gt        try               link isDisplayed            return false            catch  StaleElementReferenceException unused                return true

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If you want to wait for a specific element to load  you can use the isDisplayed   method on a RenderedWebElement       Sleep until the div we want is visible or 5 seconds is over long end   System currentTimeMillis     5000  while  System currentTimeMillis    lt  end           Browsers which render content  such as Firefox and IE  return  RenderedWebElements      RenderedWebElement resultsDiv    RenderedWebElement  driver findElement By className  gac m             If results have been returned  the results are displayed in a drop down      if  resultsDiv isDisplayed            break             Example from The 5 Minute Getting Started Guide

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In python  you can simply use   driver implicitly wait 30

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I use node   selenium-webdriver which version is 3 5 0 now   what I do for this is   var webdriver   require  selenium-webdriver        driver   new webdriver Builder   forBrowser  chrome   build      driver wait driver executeScript  return document readyState   then state   gt      return state      complete

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If you set the implicit wait of the driver  then call the findElement method on an element you expect to be on the loaded page  the WebDriver will poll for that element until it finds the element or reaches the time out value   driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 10  TimeUnit SECONDS     source  implicit-waits

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There are 2 types of waits available in Webdriver Selenium 2 software testing tool  One of them is Implicit wait and another one is explicit wait  Both  Implicit wait and explicit wait  are useful for waiting in WebDriver  Using waits  we are telling WebDriver to wait for a certain amount of time before going to next step You can use implicit wait for page load waiting   driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 10  TimeUnit SECONDS

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Explicitly wait or conditional wait in this wait until given this condition     WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait wb  60   wait until ExpectedConditions elementToBeClickable By name  value        This will wait for every web element for 60 seconds   Use implicitly wait for wait of every element on page till that given time   driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 60  TimeUnit SECONDS     This will wait for every web element for 60 seconds

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Implicit and explicit wait is better   But if you are handling an exception in Java  then you can use this for waiting for a page to reload   Thead sleep 1000

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The best way I ve seen is to utilize the stalenessOf ExpectedCondition  to wait for the old page to become stale   Example   WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver    WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  10    WebElement oldHtml   driver findElement By tagName  html     wait until ExpectedConditions stalenessOf oldHtml      It ll wait for ten seconds for the old HTML tag to become stale  and then throw an exception if it doesn t happen

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SeleniumWaiter   import com google common base Function  import org openqa selenium By  import org openqa selenium WebDriver  import org openqa selenium WebElement  import org openqa selenium support ui WebDriverWait   public class SeleniumWaiter          private WebDriver driver         public SeleniumWaiter WebDriver driver               this driver   driver                 public WebElement waitForMe By locatorname  int timeout              WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  timeout              return wait until SeleniumWaiter presenceOfElementLocated locatorname                   public static Function lt WebDriver  WebElement gt  presenceOfElementLocated final By locator                   TODO Auto-generated method stub             return new Function lt WebDriver  WebElement gt                        Override                  public WebElement apply WebDriver driver                          return driver findElement locator                                                  And to you use it    waiter   new SeleniumWaiter  driver    try       waiter waitForMe By xpath           10      catch  Exception e          Error

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I don t think an implicit wait is what you want   Try this   driver manage   timeouts   pageLoadTimeout 10  TimeUnit SECONDS    More information in the documentation

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private static void checkPageIsReady WebDriver driver        JavascriptExecutor js    JavascriptExecutor  driver          Initially bellow given if condition will check ready state of page      if  js executeScript  return document readyState   toString   equals  complete              System out println  Page Is loaded             return                This loop will rotate for 25 times to check If page Is ready after        every 1 second         You can replace your value with 25 If you wants to Increase or        decrease wait time      for  int i   0  i  lt  25  i              try               Thread sleep 1000             catch  InterruptedException e                         To check page ready state          if  js executeScript  return document readyState   toString   equals  complete                  break

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All of these solutions are OK for specific cases  but they suffer from at least one of a couple of possible problems    They are not generic enough -- they want you to know  ahead of time  that some specific condition will be true of the page you are going to  eg some element will be displayed  They are open to a race condition where you use an element that is actually present on the old page as well as the new page    Here s my attempt at a generic solution that avoids this problem  in Python    First  a generic  wait  function  use a WebDriverWait if you like  I find them ugly    def wait for condition function       start time   time time       while time time    lt  start time   3          if condition function                return True         else              time sleep 0 1      raise Exception  Timeout waiting for     format condition function   name       Next  the solution relies on the fact that selenium records an  internal  id-number for all elements on a page  including the top-level  lt html gt  element   When a page refreshes or loads  it gets a new html element with a new ID   So  assuming you want to click on a link with text  my link  for example   old page   browser find element by tag name  html    browser find element by link text  my link   click    def page has loaded        new page   browser find element by tag name  html       return new page id    old page id  wait for page has loaded    For more Pythonic  reusable  generic helper  you can make a context manager   from contextlib import contextmanager   contextmanager def wait for page load browser       old page   browser find element by tag name  html        yield      def page has loaded            new page   browser find element by tag name  html           return new page id    old page id      wait for page has loaded    And then you can use it on pretty much any selenium interaction   with wait for page load browser       browser find element by link text  my link   click     I reckon that s bulletproof   What do you think     More info in a blog post about it here

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In general  with Selenium 2 0 the web driver should only return control to the calling code once it has determined that the page has loaded  If it does not  you can call waitforelemement  which cycles round calling findelement until it is found or times out  time out can be set

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public static int counter   0   public void stepGeneralWait          boolean breakIt   true       while  true            breakIt   true          try                do                     here put e g  your spinner ID                 Controller driver findElement By xpath       id  static   div 8  img    click                    Thread sleep 10000                    counter                     if  counter  gt  3                       breakIt   false                                               while  breakIt                catch  Exception e                if  e getMessage   contains  element is not attached                      breakIt   false                                  if  breakIt                break                        try           Thread sleep 12000         catch  InterruptedException e               TODO Auto-generated catch block         e printStackTrace

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Imran s answer rehashed for Java 7       WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  30        wait until new ExpectedCondition lt Boolean gt              public Boolean apply WebDriver wdriver                return   JavascriptExecutor  driver  executeScript                   return document readyState                equals  complete

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You can use the below existing method to set the time for pageeLoadTimeout  in below example if the page is taking more than 20 seconds to load   then it will throw an exception of page reload    WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver    driver manage   timeouts   pageLoadTimeout 20  TimeUnit SECONDS

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Use implicitly wait for wait of every element on page till given time   driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 30  TimeUnit SECONDS     this wait for every element on page for 30 sec   Another wait is Explicitly wait or conditional wait in this wait until given condition   WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  40   WebElement element   wait until ExpectedConditions elementToBeClickable By id  someid        In id give static element id which is diffidently display on the page  as soon as page is load

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In my case   I used the following to know the page load status  In our application loading gif s  are present and  I listen to them as follows to eliminate unwanted wait time in the script   public static void processing         WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  30       wait until ExpectedConditions visibilityOfElementLocated By xpath    div  id  Msgpanel   div div img          wait until ExpectedConditions invisibilityOfElementLocated By xpath    div  id  Msgpanel   div div img          Where the xpath locates the gif in the HTML DOM   After this  You may also implement your action methods Click   public static void click WebElement elementToBeClicked       WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  45       wait until ExpectedConditions visibilityOf element        wait until ExpectedConditions elementToBeClickable element         wait ignoring NoSuchElementException class  ignoring StaleElementReferenceException class   elementToBeClicked click

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You can also use the class  ExpectedConditions to explicitly wait for an element to show up on the webpage before you can take any action further actions  You can use the ExpectedConditions class to determine if an element is visible   WebElement element    new WebDriverWait getDriver    10   until ExpectedConditions visibilityOfElementLocated By cssSelector  input houseName        See ExpectedConditions class Javadoc for list of all conditions you are able to check

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You can also check pageloaded using following code  IWait lt IWebDriver gt  wait   new OpenQA Selenium Support UI WebDriverWait driver  TimeSpan FromSeconds 30 00      wait Until driver1   gt    IJavaScriptExecutor driver  ExecuteScript  return document readyState   Equals  complete

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Ruby implementation   wait   Selenium  WebDriver  Wait new  timeout   gt  10  wait until        driver execute script  return document readyState        complete

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This code will wait until all the elements on the page are loaded in the DOM   WebDriver driver   new WebDriver    WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  timeout    wait until ExpectedConditions visibilityOfElementLocated By xpath

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My simple way   long timeOut   5000      long end   System currentTimeMillis     timeOut           while  System currentTimeMillis    lt  end                 if  String valueOf                        JavascriptExecutor  driver                               executeScript  return document readyState                         equals  complete                      break

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Here is a Java 8 version of the currently most upvoted answer   WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait myDriver  15   wait until webDriver - gt    JavascriptExecutor  myDriver  executeScript  return document readyState   toString   equals  complete       Where myDriver is a WebDriver object  declared earlier    Note  Be aware that this method  document readyState  only checks the DOM

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Man all these answers require too much code  This should be a simple thing as its pretty common   Why not just inject some simple javascript with the webdriver and check  This is the method I use in my webscraper class  The javascript is pretty basic even if you don t know js       def js get page state self                       Javascript for getting document readyState      return  Pages state       More Info  https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web API Document readyState             ready state   self driver execute script  return document readyState       if ready state     loading           self logger info  Loading Page          elif ready state     interactive           self logger info  Page is interactive       elif ready state     complete           self logger info  The page is fully loaded        return ready state

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use following code it s very easy and simple for page load    public void PageLoad IWebDriver driver  By by        try               Console WriteLine  PageLoad    by           WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  TimeSpan FromSeconds 30            wait Until ExpectedConditions ElementIsVisible by            wait   new WebDriverWait driver  TimeSpan FromSeconds 30       30 seconds wait until element not found           wait Until ExpectedConditions ElementToBeClickable by                catch  Exception ex                 Console WriteLine ex Message           Assert Fail  Element not found              i hope this helps you

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Call this method before an event that will change the page      private void beforePageLoad         JavascriptExecutor js    JavascriptExecutor  driver      js executeScript  document mpPageReloaded  notYet                Call this method after an event that will change the page          see  beforePageLoad             Waits for the previous page to disappear      private void afterPageLoad   throws Exception        new WebDriverWait driver  10   until new Predicate lt WebDriver gt                Override         public boolean apply WebDriver driver                JavascriptExecutor js    JavascriptExecutor  driver              Object obj   js executeScript  return document mpPageReloaded                 if  obj    null                    return true                            String str    String  obj              if   str equals  notYet                      return true                            return false                        You can change from the document to an element  in the case of where only part of a document is being changed   This technique was inspired by the answer from sincebasic

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For implicit wait you can use something like following   driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 10  TimeUnit SECONDS    In order for webpage to wait for a specific object to be visible or cerntain condition to be true  You can use wait feather of web driver     120 is maximum number of seconds to wait  WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver 120     wait until ExpectedConditions elementToBeClickable  CONDITITON       In Java  another option is to sleep the thread for specific time    Thread sleep numberOfSeconds 1000      This line will cause thread to sleep for seconds as variable   I created a method to simplify thread sleep method  public static void wait time int seconds       try           Thread sleep seconds 1000            catch  InterruptedException e               TODO Auto-generated catch block             e printStackTrace                  Use the method as wait time 10    The thread will sleep for 10 seconds

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This seems to be a serious limitation of WebDriver  Obviously waiting for an element will not imply the page being loaded  in particular the DOM can be fully build  onready state  whereby JS is still executing and CSS and images are still loading   I believe the simplest solution is to set a JS variable upon the onload event after everything is initialized and check and wait for this JS variable in Selenium

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I m surprised that predicates weren t the first choice as you typically know what element s  you will next interact with on the page you re waiting to load  My approach has always been to build out predicates functions like waitForElementByID String id  and waitForElemetVisibleByClass String className   etc  and then use and reuse these wherever I need them  be it for a page load or page content change I m waiting on   For example   In my test class   driverWait until textIsPresent  expectedText      In my test class parent   protected Predicate lt WebDriver gt  textIsPresent String text       final String t   text      return new Predicate lt WebDriver gt             public boolean apply WebDriver driver               return isTextPresent t                       protected boolean isTextPresent String text       return driver getPageSource   contains text       Though this seems like a lot  it takes care of checking repeatedly for you and the interval for how often to check can be set along with the ultimate wait time before timing out  Also  you will reuse such methods   In this example  the parent class defined and initiated the WebDriver driver and the WebDriverWait driverWait   I hope this helps

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If someone uses selenide   public static final Long SHORT WAIT   5000L     5 seconds    some css selector   waitUntil Condition appear  SHORT WAIT     More Conditions can be found here  http   selenide org javadoc 3 0 com codeborne selenide Condition html

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