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:

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Answer 1

Just had the same problem. With the folowing Method I wait for the page to load fully, not relying on causing the page load by JavaScript, a click or an action on an input element.

private void WaitForPageToLoad(Action doing)
{
    IWebElement oldPage = _driver.FindElement(By.TagName("html"));
    doing();
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(_driver, new TimeSpan(0, 0, Timeout));
    try
    {
        wait.Until(driver => ExpectedConditions.StalenessOf(oldPage)(_driver) &&
            ((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("return document.readyState").Equals("complete"));
    }
    catch (Exception pageLoadWaitError)
    {
        throw new TimeoutException("Timeout during page load", pageLoadWaitError);
    }
}

called like following

WaitForPageToLoad(() => _driver.FindElement(By.Id("button1")).Click());