Implicit wait Explicit wait in selenium WebDriver

Question

I want to understand the difference between the Implicit and Explicit wait in Selenium WebDriver.

Answer 1

Implicit Wait: 

• While loading a web page in the browser some web elements take long time to load completely
• Since WebDriver is not able to handle this situation immediately, implicit wait is used, which tells WebDriver to wait till the elements are loaded
• Implicit wait is defined only once and it will remain same throughout the driver object instance

Explicit Wait:

• An Explicit wait is defined to wait for some expected condition
• These expected conditions can check whether the element is displayed on the web page or not, and can be clicked or not
• Also referred as “Conditional Wait”