How can I make WebDriver wait for few seconds

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I'm working on Selenium-WebDriver with Java & I added the below statement:

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
WebElement textbox = driver.findElement(By.id("textbox"));

This is because the page takes a few seconds to load the UI. That's why I gave a 2 seconds implicitwait. But I always get an error saying unable to locate the element textbox. And then when I added

Thread.sleep(2000);

Everythng works fine. So what's wrong?

Apr 6, 2018 in Selenium by Martin
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Well, just try increasing the amount of time for implicitwait(). Even though Thread.sleep() works with 2s wait, something more than that should definately work for implicitwait(). Imlicitly wait for 10s and if the element is found within that time, then you won't have any problem. 

But besides, there are 2 types of waits: Explicit wait and Implicit wait. Explicit wait works like this:

WebDriverWait.until(WebElement("textbox").isVisible());

But, Implicit wait works like this:

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

So, there is no funny reason any of this might not work. Try it out once.

answered Apr 6, 2018 by nsv999
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