Page Load Timeout - Selenium Webdriver using C#

c# selenium selenium-webdriver settimeout page-load-time
Nick Kahn picture Nick Kahn · Jan 30, 2013 · Viewed 7k times · Source

I am using Selenium 2.25 WebDriver

I'm having a issue with finding the elements on the page and some times my test cases able to find element and sometime the page is does not load and its due to page load and if i add this below line and it seems like working:

 driver.Manage().Timeouts().SetPageLoadTimeout(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2));

my question is, i dont want to have my code scatter with the above line of code, is there a way to make it centerlize in one place?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Answer

JimEvans picture JimEvans · Jan 30, 2013

If you set the timeout once, it's set for the lifetime of the driver instance. You don't need to keep resetting it. You can set this immediately after creating the driver.

IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.Manage().Timeouts.SetPageLoadTimeout(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2));

The only caveat for using this timeout is that not every browser may support it completely (IE does for sure, Firefox does too I think, but I don't think Chrome does).

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