Best practice to wait for a change with Selenium Webdriver?

Question

After a click event I need to wait for an elements attribute to change before proceeding further (click event causes certain elements to move out of focus and certain others get

Answer 1

You can use implicit WebDriver wait :

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

An implicit wait is to tell WebDriver to poll the DOM for a certain amount of time when trying to find an element or elements if they are not immediately available.

More here: http://seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.html#implicit-waits