python selenium: does not wait until page is loaded after a click() command

Question

does someone know how to wait until the page is loaded? I tried all possible variants I found on the web but is simply does not work.

I need to wait after I trigger a cl

Answer 1

Fundamentally if the page is being generated by JavaScript then there is no way to tell when it has "finished" loading.

However. I typically try to retrieve a page element, catch the exception and keep on trying until a timeout is reached. I might also check that the element is visible not merely present.

There must be some DOM element whose visibility you can use to test that a page has "finished" loading. I typically have a wait_for_element_visibility, and wait_for_element_presence functions in my test cases.

def wait_for_visibility(self, selector, timeout_seconds=10):
    retries = timeout_seconds
    while retries:
        try:
            element = self.get_via_css(selector)
            if element.is_displayed():
                return element
        except (exceptions.NoSuchElementException,
                exceptions.StaleElementReferenceException):
            if retries <= 0:
                raise
            else:
                pass

        retries = retries - 1
        time.sleep(pause_interval)
    raise exceptions.ElementNotVisibleException(
        "Element %s not visible despite waiting for %s seconds" % (
            selector, timeout_seconds)
    )

get_via_css is one of my own functions but I hope it's fairly clear what it is doing.