Wait for page load in Selenium

Question

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

Answer 1

/**
 * Call this method before an event that will change the page.
 */
private void beforePageLoad() {
    JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
    js.executeScript("document.mpPageReloaded='notYet';");
}

/**
 * Call this method after an event that will change the page.
 * 
 * @see #beforePageLoad
 * 
 *      Waits for the previous page to disappear.
 */
private void afterPageLoad() throws Exception {
    (new WebDriverWait(driver, 10)).until(new Predicate() {

        @Override
        public boolean apply(WebDriver driver) {
            JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
            Object obj = js.executeScript("return document.mpPageReloaded;");
            if (obj == null) {
                return true;
            }
            String str = (String) obj;
            if (!str.equals("notYet")) {
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    });
}

You can change from the document to an element, in the case of where only part of a document is being changed.

This technique was inspired by the answer from sincebasic.