Selenium implicitlyWait Not Working?

Question

I am learning Java Maven Selenium. I want something like this in Selenium using implicitlyWait.

Open website (for example https://www.facebook.com)
Click on email field of login
Wait 20 seconds
Enter my email

Here is my simple code:

package com.org.learningMaven;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class HelloWorldTest {   
    @Test
    public void login() {
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/");
        driver.findElement(By.id("email")).click();
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.findElement(By.id("email")).sendKeys("myemail@yahoo.com");
    }
    private void sendKeys(Keys enter) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }
}

This code is not working. It will simply open Facebook, click on email field & enter my email id instead of waiting 10 seconds before entering my email.

read the doc http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.jsp#implicit-waits and make conclusion when we need to use it :P — drets, Dec 22 '15 at 19:07
and can you share why you need to wait specific amount of time? it doesn't make sense to me in this particular case. — drets, Dec 22 '15 at 19:10
you are right, it does not make sense using wait here, i just made this a simple example to understand the process easily. :) — carol, Dec 22 '15 at 19:36
& i was trying to post on my Facebook timeline. if i post a link https://www.google.com there, then i will wait 10 seconds to load link thumbnail before clicking Post button. & i think my next question will be how to Click Post button, reaching post button using TAB key is not a good way, it is hard to know how many time i should press TAB key to Focus POST button :P and..... eyes...? Thanks — carol, Dec 22 '15 at 19:45
Before posting a question try to answer the question yourself, try to read some docs, e.g. https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/GettingStarted - you will get more benefit from it. — drets, Dec 22 '15 at 19:50

score 18 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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Implicit Wait and Explicit Waits doesn't work that way, they will maximum wait for element for the time duration specified, If they find the element before that next step would be executed.

If you want your test to wait for exact time duration, you may want to use.

Thread.sleep(Time duration in milliseconds);

You may want to refer Diff b/w Implict Wait and Explicit Wait

Explicit Waits : An explicit waits is code you define to wait for a certain condition to occur before proceeding further in the code.

Implicit Waits : An implicit wait is to tell WebDriver to poll the DOM for a certain amount of time when trying to find an element or elements if they are not immediately available.

Thread.sleep : In sleep code It will always wait for mentioned seconds, even in case the page is ready to interact after 1 sec. So this can slow the tests.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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answered Dec 22 '15 at 19:05

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Thanks, it worked. i heard that Thread.sleep(); is not a good thing, i dont know why it is not good, but it is working for me, thanks again. – carol Dec 22 '15 at 19:13
But its not a good practice to use `Thread.sleep` you should always try to use `Implicit or Explicit Waits`. – Paras Dec 22 '15 at 19:14
can you tell me plz why it is not good? in my case, i only want to wait few seconds before doing any action, so what side effect can i have with sleep method ? thanks – carol Dec 22 '15 at 19:16
i am using try { Thread.sleep(20000); } catch (InterruptedException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } – carol Dec 22 '15 at 19:17
Thanks a lot Drets, i got it. :) – carol Dec 22 '15 at 19:20
I've modified the answer. – Paras Dec 22 '15 at 19:21

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '18 at 18:12

Thread.sleep halts you execution for that particular time period. That why it is not recommended to use Thread.sleep in your execution script. Where as Implicit/Explicit wait deals with particular webelement. If script finds the required web element is present in the page, script moves on. If it does not find the mentioned web element, if finds that element in the web page for that particular wait period.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '19 at 07:50

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Implement WebDriverWait

public void waitForElement(WebDriver driver, WebElement element) {
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,5);
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(element));

}

answered May 14 '19 at 07:50

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 04 '19 at 18:24

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If a web element is not displaying and you want to wait for that element to be displayed then following code will work.

while(true) {
    boolean flag = driver.findElement(By.id("id_name")).isDisplayed();
    if(flag)
        break;
}

edited Aug 04 '19 at 18:24

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answered Jun 14 '18 at 07:06

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The OP is asking about just waiting, not waiting for an Element. Aside from that, this code will fail and throw a TimeoutException if the page takes longer to load than the default implicit wait (I think it's 3 seconds). @Bart Van De Slijcke's answer is the correct way to wait for an Element on a slow page. – belwood Aug 04 '19 at 16:24

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