How to wait for an element until it is found?

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I want my code to wait for an element explicitly. i.e. No time limit for waiting. It should wait for an element until that element is found, then whether it takes 1 hour or more.

Maybe you can set maximum waiting time, say `100*100` or something big. — Diabolus, Jul 12 '17 at 11:39
How do you "look for" that element? Is it a database query or a webrequest or maybe a file on the filesystem? Can you use async/await, or maybe work with events/listeners? Or simply `while (!found) { Sleep(...); found = checkIfFound(); }`? — Corak, Jul 12 '17 at 11:44
For example, After login on facebook or any other site I want to wait for an element (it could be LOGOUT button or notification bar) just to confirm that page is completely loaded. @LeiYang — aayush rishi, Jul 12 '17 at 12:06
In c# we find element by, driverff.findelement(by.id/class("id/class name")); on webpage @Corak — aayush rishi, Jul 12 '17 at 12:07
Possible duplicate of [Selenium c# Webdriver: Wait Until Element is Present](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6992993/selenium-c-sharp-webdriver-wait-until-element-is-present) — budi, Jul 12 '17 at 21:11

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 12 '17 at 13:06

You can use do-while loop to wait for that element as it won't appear on screen.

you can take reference of below code.

isElementDisplayed =driver.findElement(By.xpath("element")).isDisplayed(); 

do{
    Thread.sleep(1000);
} while(isElementDisplayed == true)

How to wait for an element until it is found?

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