Wait for page load in Selenium

Question

How do you make Selenium 2.0 wait for the page to load?

Answer 1

If you want to wait for a specific element to load, you can use the isDisplayed() method on a RenderedWebElement :

// Sleep until the div we want is visible or 5 seconds is over
long end = System.currentTimeMillis() + 5000;
while (System.currentTimeMillis() < end) {
    // Browsers which render content (such as Firefox and IE) return "RenderedWebElements"
    RenderedWebElement resultsDiv = (RenderedWebElement) driver.findElement(By.className("gac_m"));

    // If results have been returned, the results are displayed in a drop down.
    if (resultsDiv.isDisplayed()) {
      break;
    }
}

(Example from The 5 Minute Getting Started Guide)