Selenium — How to wait until page is completely loaded [duplicate]

Answer 1

There are two different ways to use delay in selenium one which is most commonly in use. Please try this:

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

second one which you can use that is simply try catch method by using that method you can get your desire result.if you want example code feel free to contact me defiantly I will provide related code

Answer 2

yes stale element error is thrown when (taking your scenario) you have defined locator strategy to click on 'Add Item' first and then when you close the pop up the page gets refreshed hence the reference defined for 'Add Item' is lost in the memory so to overcome this you have to redefine the locator strategy for 'Add Item' again

understand it with a dummy code

// clicking on view details 
driver.findElement(By.id("")).click();
// closing the pop up 
driver.findElement(By.id("")).click();


// and when you try to click on Add Item
driver.findElement(By.id("")).click();
// you get stale element exception as reference to add item is lost 
// so to overcome this you have to re identify the locator strategy for add item 
// Please note : this is one of the way to overcome stale element exception 

// Step 1 please add a universal wait in your script like below 
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS); // just after you have initiated browser

Answer 3

3 answers, which you can combine:

1. Set implicit wait immediately after creating the web driver instance:

   _ = driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitWait;

   This will try to wait until the page is fully loaded on every page navigation or page reload.

2. After page navigation, call JavaScript return document.readyState until "complete" is returned. The web driver instance can serve as JavaScript executor. Sample code:

   C#

   new WebDriverWait(driver, MyDefaultTimeout).Until(
   d => ((IJavaScriptExecutor) d).ExecuteScript("return document.readyState").Equals("complete"));
   

   Java

   new WebDriverWait(firefoxDriver, pageLoadTimeout).until(
         webDriver -> ((JavascriptExecutor) webDriver).executeScript("return document.readyState").equals("complete"));
   

3. Check if the URL matches the pattern you expect.

Answer 4

You can do this in many ways before clicking on add items:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 40);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("urelementid")));// instead of id u can use cssSelector or xpath of ur element.


or

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated("urelement"));

you can also wait like this. If you want to wait until invisible of previous page element:

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated("urelement"));

here is the link where u find all the selenium webdriver api that can be used for wait and its documentation.

https://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/support/ui/ExpectedConditions.html

Answer 5

It seems that you need to wait for the page to be reloaded before clicking on the "Add" button. In this case you could wait for the "Add Item" element to become stale before clicking on the reloaded element:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 20);
By addItem = By.xpath("//input[.='Add Item']");

// get the "Add Item" element
WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(addItem));

//trigger the reaload of the page
driver.findElement(By.id("...")).click();

// wait the element "Add Item" to become stale
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.stalenessOf(element));

// click on "Add Item" once the page is reloaded
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(addItem)).click();