Selenium webdriver explicit wait

Question

I\'m writing some automated tests for using the selenium chrome driver. I trying to write a reusable method that will explicitly wait for elements to appear and then call th

Answer 1

Just use this method.I hope it will work perfectly.

public void waitForElement(String item) {
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,30);
    WebElement element =  wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id("item")));
}

Then call the method :

waitForElement("new-message-button");