The Implicit Wait in Selenium is used to tell the web driver to wait for a certain amount of time before it throws a “No Such Element Exception”. The default setting is 0. Once we set the time, the web driver will wait for the element for that time before throwing an exception.
Selenium Web Driver has borrowed the idea of implicit waits from Watir.
Before Selenium 4 –
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
Now we will see this as deprecated @Deprecated WebDriver.Timeouts implicitlyWait(long time, TimeUnit unit);
After Selenium 4 –
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(Duration.ofSeconds(10));
The Explicit Wait in Selenium is used to tell the Web Driver to wait for certain conditions (Expected Conditions) or maximum time exceeded before throwing “ElementNotVisibleException” exception. It is an intelligent kind of wait, but it can be applied only for specified elements. It gives better options than implicit wait as it waits for dynamically loaded Ajax elements.
Once we declare explicit wait we have to use “ExpectedConditions” or we can configure how frequently we want to check the condition using Fluent Wait. These days while implementing we are using Thread.Sleep() generally it is not recommended to use.
Before Selenium 4 –
//Old syntax
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,10);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector(“.classlocator”)));
After Selenium 4 –
//Selenium 4 syntax
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,Duration.ofSeconds(10));
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector(“.classlocator”)));