Question

I’d like to wait until DOM is stable and the page is contructed until I try to execute Selenium WebDriver click() method.

Since Selenium 2 there doesn’t seem to exist stock wait_for() method anymore. What’s the best practice for “wait 15 seconds or until the element is clickable” style behavior with Selenium and Python 2?

Answer 1

This is in ruby, i am sure it can be done in Python as well

@wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 30)
#You can define as many as you want with various times
@wait_less = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 15)
#and then
@wait.until { @driver.find_element(:id, "Submit") }
@driver.find_element(:id, "Submit").click

Note – You could wait for anything. other examples

@wait.until {@driver.window_handles.size > 1}

or

@wait_less.until {@driver.find_element(:tag_name => "body").text.include?("Some text")}