Timeout on element find in Selenium with Java

Question

When you do something like

WebElement tab = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//table"))

you can issue a command like

 driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

to change the timeout. But now, what if you want to do something like the following:

 public String getCellText(WebElement tab) {
 {
     WebElement td = tab.findElement(By.xpath(".//td"));
     return td.getText();
 }

You can't do a

 tab.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Is there a way to change the timeout? This is expecially interesting when you have an element that is a table, and you want to find the rows underneath, if it is possible there are no rows. If you did a tab.findElements(By.xpath("tr")) and there are no rows it can take up to a minute to return.

Is there a way to set timeout for an element as above?

cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-17 12:21:04Z

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driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

This is a implicit wait.
The implicit wait is set for the life of the WebDriver object instance.

Since tab is web element , you can't do :

tab.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

You may opt for Explicit wait for change the timeout for specific conditions.

Code would be something like this :

new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(locator));

It return a web element. you can have it like this also :

WebElement element =   new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(locator));

edited May 17, 2018 at 12:21

answered May 17, 2018 at 12:14

cruisepandey

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4 Comments

Tony Over a year ago

So what would locator be? I usually would use By.xpath(xpath) where xpath is the xpath. But this needs to be relative to the element. Can I somehow specify the locator as being relative to the element?

cruisepandey Over a year ago

locator is nothing but by.xpath(xpath) ; Hope this will be helpful !

Tony Over a year ago

I guess I have to play around with it ;-)

Tony Over a year ago

Can I do a new WebDriverWait(table); ? (where table is a WebElement)?

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