Waiting for an element to load using Selenium

Question

I've had a good look through here but the web element waits don't seem to fit into my code.

I'm fairly new to Java and Selenium. I want to try and get a wait for element into my code before it times out.

Any suggestions?

It's crashing when it hits this point because the page does take a while to search for this address.

@Step ("Verifying landmark")
public void validatingLandmark(String s){
    String actualValue = getDriver().findElement(By.id("MainContent_lblLandmarkUPRN")).getText();
    assertEquals(s, actualValue);
    TimeOut();
}

Answer 1

You need to use WebDriverWait. For instance, explicitly wait for an element to become visible:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(getDriver(), timeOut);
WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("MainContent_lblLandmarkUPRN")));

String actualValue = element.getText();

You can also use textToBePresentInElement Expected Condition:

WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElement(By.id("MainContent_lblLandmarkUPRN"), s));

Answer 2

You can use Explicit wait or Fluent Wait

Example of Explicit Wait -

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(WebDriverRefrence,20);
WebElement aboutMe;
aboutMe= wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("about_me"))); 

Example of Fluent Wait -

Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<WebDriver>(driver)                            
.withTimeout(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS)          
.pollingEvery(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)          
.ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class);    

  WebElement aboutMe= wait.until(new Function<WebDriver, WebElement>() {       
public WebElement apply(WebDriver driver) { 
return driver.findElement(By.id("about_me"));     
 }  
});  

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