Do I always have to wait before clicking?

Question

I'm writing some tests for my site using webdriverjs with mocha/chai, and I find when I do this:

it('select application', function(done) {

    client

        .click('.disciplinetext > table:nth-child(7) > tbody:nth-child(1) > tr:nth-child(1) > td:nth-child(3) > button:nth-child(1)')

        // more stuff

The element doesn't exist yet. Shouldn't

.click

implicitly wait for the page to finish loading before it actually attempts to click the element?

It works fine if I slap this line before it:

.waitFor('.disciplinetext > table:nth-child(7) > tbody:nth-child(1) > tr:nth-child(1) > td:nth-child(3) > button:nth-child(1)',1000)

But I don't want to have to throw a

waitFor

before I query I run

.setValue

,

.click

,

.getText

and everything else... am I missing something?

Is there either a command to wait for the whole page to load, or a setting to make implicitly wait before accessing an element?

Answer 1

The driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(ms) function does exist in the WebdriverJS Reference API Docs. This API is for the official Javascript API that Selenium supports and @sircapsalot's excerpt comes from. However, it is much cleaner than looking at the Google Code and much easier to navigate.

Do I always have to wait before clicking?

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