Selenium IDE - Command to wait for 5 seconds

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I´m using the Selenium IDE for Firefox and searching for a wait command. My problem is that I want to test a website with a embedded external map. This external map needs 3-5 seconds to load.

My commands:

open /Page/mysite.html
//Wait Command? (5 seconds)
ClickAndWait link=do something

score 115 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 16 '19 at 21:49

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Use the pause command and enter the number of milliseconds in the Target field.

Set speed to fastest (Actions --> Fastest), otherwise it won't work.

edited Dec 16 '19 at 21:49

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answered Jul 14 '11 at 17:39

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Thank you! I insered the command, but Selenium doesn´t pause. Command = pause, Value = 10000 – LaPhi Jul 15 '11 at 07:45
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Use `Target` instead of `Value`. Command = Pause, Target = 1000. – khairul Mar 12 '12 at 03:39
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@Khairul glad you added that comment, it's been driving me mad as to why `pause()` won't work! – cchana May 18 '12 at 11:13
Speed has no bearing on the pause command, it is as @Khairul says instead: Put it in the target. – Mendhak Oct 24 '12 at 14:50
when you pause at the end of a test case when running a test suite it won't work – Alfonso Fernandez-Ocampo Jul 11 '14 at 06:02

JustBeingHelpful · Answer 2 · 2020-06-15T04:45:40.687

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This will delay things for 5 seconds:

Command: pause
Target: 5000
Value:

This will delay things for 3 seconds:

Command: pause
Target: 3000
Value:

Documentation:

http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0/reference.html#pause

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answered Jul 17 '11 at 07:59

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So, set 5000 for 5 seconds – Ripon Al Wasim Jul 29 '15 at 07:04
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That's insane that they would make the target the value to wait in milliseconds. Love it. Thank you for posting this as I did not even try to enter the value in the target. – John Z Mar 29 '18 at 17:37

fedorqui · Answer 3 · 2014-09-02T16:03:13.077

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For those working with ant, I use this to indicate a pause of 5 seconds:

<tr>
    <td>pause</td>
    <td>5000</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

That is, target: 5000 and value empty. As the reference indicates:

pause(waitTime)

Arguments:

waitTime - the amount of time to sleep (in milliseconds)

Wait for the specified amount of time (in milliseconds)

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answered Sep 02 '14 at 15:53

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 14 '11 at 14:43

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Your best bet is probably waitForCondition and writing a javascript function that returns true when the map is loaded.

answered Jul 14 '11 at 14:43

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Thanks for your comment! But is there now OOTB way to wait x seconds? – LaPhi Jul 14 '11 at 14:49
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No, there's no direct way to just wait for x seconds. See the [complete list of supported commands](http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0.1/reference.html). – highlycaffeinated Jul 14 '11 at 14:52
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pause x000 seconds will wait for x seconds – Thunder Rabbit Jun 11 '13 at 07:47

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 15 '22 at 20:27

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In case when you use Chrome exctantion you can set timeout in 'Target'. It helps for me.

answered Aug 15 '22 at 20:27

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 17 '11 at 06:55

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This will do what you are looking for in C# (WebDriver/Selenium 2.0)

var browser = new FirefoxDriver();
var overallTimeout = Timespan.FromSeconds(10);
var sleepCycle = TimeSpan.FromMiliseconds(50);
var wait = new WebDriverWait(new SystemClock(), browser, overallTimeout, sleepCycle);
var hasTimedOut = wait.Until(_ => /* here goes code that looks for the map */);

And never use Thread.Sleep because it makes your tests unreliable

answered Jul 17 '11 at 06:55

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Much better option in Selenium 2. – craastad Jul 03 '13 at 14:16

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 10 '14 at 12:32

Before the command clickAndWait add the following code so the script will wait until the specific link to be visible:

   <tr>
        <td>waitForVisible</td>
        <td>link=do something</td>
        <td></td>
    </tr>

The practice of using the wait commands instead of pause is most of the times more efficient and more stable.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered May 21 '15 at 21:50

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This will wait until your link has appeared, and then you can click it.

Command: waitForElementPresent Target: link=do something Value:

answered May 21 '15 at 21:50

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 13 '15 at 12:53

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One that I've found works for the site I test is this one:

waitForCondition | selenium.browserbot.getUserWindow().$.active==0 | 20000

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Jan 29 '18 at 15:34

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In Chrome, For "Selenium IDE", I was also struggling that it doesn't pause. It will pause, if you give as below:

Command: pause
Target: blank
Value: 10000

This will pause for 10 seconds.

answered Jan 29 '18 at 15:34

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Target should be 10000 and value should be blank – Sirmyself Mar 20 '18 at 21:07
Not sure which browser's plugin you are trying but that worked fine for me in Chrome. Also depends which extension you are using. – TechSingh May 15 '18 at 17:23

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Jul 14 '11 at 17:56

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The pause command can be used directly in the ide in the html format.

If using java or C you could use Thread.sleep(5000). Time is in milliseconds. Other languages support "sleep 5" or time.sleep(5). you have multiple options for just waiting for a set time.

answered Jul 14 '11 at 17:56

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Thread.Sleep is never a good idea and that's why Selenium provides wait primitives. If you use them you can specify much higher timeout value which makes tests more reliable without slowing them down as the condition can be evaluated as often as it's required, eg. every 50ms. – Pawel Pabich Jul 17 '11 at 07:06
My response in the thread.sleep is only related to answer the question for how to make it wait in the ide. As pause gets translated into thread.sleep when you convert from html to java or c in the ide. – rattlerbred Jul 18 '11 at 13:28

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