Selenium wait until document is ready

Try this code:

  driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

The above code will wait up to 10 seconds for page loading. If the page loading exceeds the time it will throw the TimeoutException. You catch the exception and do your needs. I am not sure whether it quits the page loading after the exception thrown. i didn't try this code yet. Want to just try it.

This is an implicit wait. If you set this once it will have the scope until the Web Driver instance destroy.

See the documentation for WebDriver.Timeouts for more info.

Your suggested solution only waits for DOM readyState to signal complete. But Selenium by default tries to wait for those (and a little bit more) on page loads via the driver.get() and element.click() methods. They are already blocking, they wait for the page to fully load and those should be working ok.

Problem, obviously, are redirects via AJAX requests and running scripts - those can't be caught by Selenium, it doesn't wait for them to finish. Also, you can't reliably catch them via readyState - it waits for a bit, which can be useful, but it will signal complete long before all the AJAX content is downloaded.

There is no general solution that would work everywhere and for everyone, that's why it's hard and everyone uses something a little bit different.

The general rule is to rely on WebDriver to do his part, then use implicit waits, then use explicit waits for elements you want to assert on the page, but there's a lot more techniques that can be done. You should pick the one (or a combination of several of them) that works best in your case, on your tested page.

See my two answers regarding this for more information:

• How I can check whether page is loaded completely or not in web driver
• Selenium Webdriver : Wait for complex page with javascript to load

This is a working Java version of the example you gave :

void waitForLoad(WebDriver driver) {
    new WebDriverWait(driver, 30).until((ExpectedCondition<Boolean>) wd ->
            ((JavascriptExecutor) wd).executeScript("return document.readyState").equals("complete"));
}

Example For c#:

public static void WaitForLoad(IWebDriver driver, int timeoutSec = 15)
{
    IJavaScriptExecutor js = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, new TimeSpan(0, 0, timeoutSec));
    wait.Until(wd => js.ExecuteScript("return document.readyState").ToString() == "complete");
}

Example for PHP:

final public function waitUntilDomReadyState(RemoteWebDriver $webDriver): void
{
    $webDriver->wait()->until(function () {
        return $webDriver->executeScript('return document.readyState') === 'complete';
    });
}