Check for element to be clickable without an explicit wait time

Question

As stated by the Selenium Documentation we never should mix up explicit and implicit wait times:

WARNING: Do not mix implicit and explicit waits. Doing so can cause unpredictable wait times. For example setting an implicit wait of 10s and an explicit wait of 15 seconds, could cause a timeout to occur after 20 seconds.

I've set a implicit wait time of 5000 ms. At the end of some Browser interaction I just want to verify whether the required links are clickable.

I know that this can be done by using ExpectedConditions, but this implies an explicit wait time as in the example below.

protected PageNewDocument isElementClickable(WebElement element)
{
    (new WebDriverWait(driver, 1)).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(element));
    return this;
}

How can I check for elements to be clickable without the definition of an explicit wait time?

Answer 1

Answered a similar question here the other day. This method waits for the page to be loaded before returning true. So your elements should be clickable then.

private static WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 60);
private static JavascriptExecutor js  = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;

public static void waitForPageLoaded() {
            wait.until(new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
                public Boolean apply(WebDriver driver) {
                    Boolean res = (js.executeScript("return document.readyState").equals("complete"));
                    System.out.println("[DEBUG] waitForPageLoaded: " + res);
                    return res;
            }
    });
}