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 could use Thread.sleep like people have implemented here..You can use their implementations to relate to your problem.

    public void waitFor(Webdriver driver,,WebElement welElem, String attributeValue){
    int timeout=0;
    while(true){
        if(driver.webElem.getAttribute(attribute)!=null){
        break;
        }
        if(timeout>=10){
        break;
        }
        Thread.sleep(100);
        timeout++;
    }

}

I think you could implement something like this. I have not checked it but you get the idea.