How to wait for the webpage to load in selenium using java

Question

How do we make selenium to wait for the page to load? In the sense how should we write the script in java so that the selenium test case waits for the page to load before testing it.

Answer 1

Firstly, when you launch a web application, the selenium test script waits for the page to be loaded before executing the test script.

Secondly, all the web elements are not loaded at the same time, in a situation like that we can use implictwait, the following statement might be helpful:

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5,TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Selenium will wait for maximum 5 seconds for the web elements to load before executing the test case.