Webdriverwait Not Working as Expected

WebDriverWait not working as expected

Once you wait for the element and moving forward as you are trying to invoke click() method instead of using presence_of_element_located() method you need to use element_to_be_clickable() as follows :

try:
    myElem = WebDriverWait(self.browser, delay).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH , xpath)))

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Update

As per your counter question in the comments here are the details of the three methods :

presence_of_element_located

presence_of_element_located(locator) is defined as follows :

class selenium.webdriver.support.expected_conditions.presence_of_element_located(locator)

Parameter : locator - used to find the element returns the WebElement once it is located

Description : An expectation for checking that an element is present on the DOM of a page. This does not necessarily mean that the element is visible or interactable (i.e. clickable). 

visibility_of_element_located

visibility_of_element_located(locator) is defined as follows :

class selenium.webdriver.support.expected_conditions.visibility_of_element_located(locator)

Parameter : locator -  used to find the element returns the WebElement once it is located and visible

Description : An expectation for checking that an element is present on the DOM of a page and visible. Visibility means that the element is not only displayed but also has a height and width that is greater than 0.

element_to_be_clickable

element_to_be_clickable(locator) is defined as follows :

class selenium.webdriver.support.expected_conditions.element_to_be_clickable(locator)

Parameter : locator - used to find the element returns the WebElement once it is visible, enabled and interactable (i.e. clickable).

Description : An Expectation for checking an element is visible, enabled and interactable such that you can click it. 

Webdriverwait is not working as expected

New release/s of selenium is not stable , I used the old version of selenium which is 2.53 so that the code webdriverwait will work as expected.

webdriver implicitWait not working as expected

Use below method to wait for a element:

public boolean waitForElementToBePresent(By by, int waitInMilliSeconds) throws Exception
{

    int wait = waitInMilliSeconds;
    int iterations  = (wait/250);
    long startmilliSec = System.currentTimeMillis();
    for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
    {
        if((System.currentTimeMillis()-startmilliSec)>wait)
            return false;
        List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(by);
        if (elements != null && elements.size() > 0)
            return true;
        Thread.sleep(250);
    }
    return false;
}

And below method is to wait for page load:

public void waitForPageLoadingToComplete() throws Exception {
    ExpectedCondition<Boolean> expectation = new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
        public Boolean apply(WebDriver driver) {
            return ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript(
                    "return      document.readyState").equals("complete");
        }
    };
    Wait<WebDriver> wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
    wait.until(expectation);
}

Let's assume you are waiting for a page to load. Then call the 1st method with waiting time and any element which appears after page loading then it will return true, other wise false. Use it like,

waitForElementToBePresent(By.id("Something"), 20000)

The above called function waits until it finds the given element within given duration.

Try any of below code after above method

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, timeoutInSeconds);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id<locator>));

or

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id<locator>));

Update:

public boolean waitForTextFiled(By by, int waitInMilliSeconds, WebDriver wdriver) throws Exception
    {
        WebDriver driver = wdriver;
        int wait = waitInMilliSeconds;
        int iterations  = (wait/250);
        long startmilliSec = System.currentTimeMillis();
        for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
        {
            if((System.currentTimeMillis()-startmilliSec)>wait)
                return false;
            driver.findElement(By.id("txt")).sendKeys("Something");
            String name =  driver.findElement(by).getAttribute("value");

            if (name != null && !name.equals("")){
                return true;
            }
            Thread.sleep(250);
        }
        return false;
    }

This will try entering text in to the text field till given time in millis. If getAttribute() is not suitable in your case use getText(). If text is enetered then it returns true. Put maximum time that u can wait until.

Selenium WebDriver wait doesn't work with expected conditions for cookie policy window

You are waiting for the cookie policy close button twice. Your code closes the cookie policy panel first time so it keeps waiting for the button to be clickable again but it is not going to be clickable after you have closed it. That is why you are getting exception.

Try the following:

driver.get("https://www.marketwatch.com/watchlist")

wait = WebDriverWait(driver,30)

wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CLASS_NAME,"gdpr-close"))).click()

wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "wl-scrim-start"))).click()

wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "profilelogin"))).click()

It will take you to the login page without any exception.

Selenium Python - Explicit waits not working

This version successfully loads the site, waits for it to render, then opens the side menu. Notice how the wait.until method is is used successfully wait until the page is loaded. You should be able to use the pattern below with the rest of your code to achieve your goal.

CODE

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
driver.get("https://www.target.com/")

wait.until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#leftNavigation > ul:nth-child(2)")))
button = driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//*[@id="js-toggleLeftNavLg"]""")
button.click()
time.sleep(5)


driver.quit()

Expected Condition WebDriverWait Python Selenium Question

You were close.
The WebDriverWait expect a driver instance as first parameter. The WebElement object has the driver object in its instance and also implement most of the WebDriver methods.

Having that in mind, you can create a new WebDriverWait and pass your element instead of the driver.

Instead of:

elements[x].WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,'li.price-current')))

Use:

WebDriverWait(elements[x], 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,'li.price-current')))

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