How to get webDriver to wait for page to load (C# Selenium project)

Question

I\'ve started a Selenium project in C#. Trying to wait for page to finish loading up and only afterwards proceed to next action.

My code looks like this:

<         


        

Answer 1

I did this to address this type of issue. It's a combination of timers and loops that are looking for a specific element until it timesout after a certain number of milliseconds.

private IWebElement FindElementById(string id, int timeout = 1000)
{
    IWebElement element = null;

    var s = new Stopwatch();
    s.Start();

    while (s.Elapsed < TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeout))
    {
        try
        {
            element = _driver.FindElementById(id);
            break;
        }
        catch (NoSuchElementException)
        {
        }
    }

    s.Stop();
    return element;
}

I also made one for element enabled

private IWebElement ElementEnabled(IWebElement element, int timeout = 1000)
{
    var s = new Stopwatch();
    s.Start();

    while (s.Elapsed < TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeout))
    {
        if (element.Enabled)
        {
            return element;
        }
    }

    s.Stop();
    return null;
}