Getting Selenium to pause for X seconds

Question

What I am trying to accomplish is browsing to a page, waiting for something to load and then taking and saving a screenshot.

The code I already have is

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();   driver.get("http://www.site.com");   driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);  try {      File scrFile = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);     FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, new File("/home/Desktop/image.png"));  } catch (Exception e) {          e.printStackTrace();  }  driver.close(); 

The reason I need to wait, even if the page is loaded is because it'll be loaded but on the site the content I'd like to take a picture of loads after a few seconds. For some reason the page is not waiting, is there another method that I can use to get the driver/page to wait for X amount of seconds?

Answer 1

You can locate an element that loads after the initial page loads and then make Selenium wait until that element is found.

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10); WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("ID"))); 

Answer 2

That wouldnt really be a selenium specific thing. You just want java to sleep for a bit after loading the page but before taking the screenshot.

Thread.sleep(4000); 

put that after your driver.get statement.