Explicit wait is not working in Selenium webdriver

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I am trying to find an element in my page. That element will only come if there is any error in the application. I handled that pretty well, only issue is that it waits for 30 secs (Implicit wait) to move to next step. I don't want to wait for 30 secs instead I'll like my script to wait for 3 secs before moving to next step, so I decided to use explicit wait for the same. Here is my code

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 3);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("errorelement")));

Problem is that the Selenium webdriver is still waiting for that element upto 30 secs before giving an error and moving to next step. I tried with visibilityOfElementLocated option as well but it's still not working.

Am I missing something here ?

Selenium version:- 2.46.0

Browser :- Mozilla, Chrome

Could you share the full code with us? It seems that you forget to delete the 30 sec wait from somewhere. — peetya
– peetya, Commented Jul 20, 2015 at 6:53

Kirill · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-20 06:55:36Z

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I'd recommend to set implicit wait to 0, and always use explicit wait:

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(0, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Here is a good answer on this topic.

answered Jul 20, 2015 at 6:55

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Vikas Piprade · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-06 09:05:32Z

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If you are using implicit waits and explicit waits in the same solution you will have issues from the seleniumhq docs

WARNING: Do not mix implicit and explicit waits. Doing so can cause unpredictable wait times. For example setting an implicit wait of 10s and an explicit wait of 15 seconds, could cause a timeout to occur after 20 seconds.

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Please see official Selenium Documentation on mixing Explicit and Implicit waits.

(https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/en/webdriver/waits/)

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answered Jul 20, 2015 at 7:45

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LeechCoder · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-24 18:57:29Z

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Could you share the full code with us? It seems that you forget to delete the 30 sec wait from somewhere. – peetya

This was super straight to the point, I had the same issue but it was just because I declared implicit wait for 30 seconds when launching the browser, didn't think to look back at it because it seemed "trivial". Thanks so much for pointing this out peetya.

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Rahul Sharma · Accepted Answer · 2024-03-01 18:47:02Z

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Use this syntax, it will work

WebDriverWait d = new WebDriverWait(driver, Duration.ofMillis(7000));

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