Selenium IDE - Command to wait for 5 seconds

Question

I´m using the Selenium IDE for Firefox and searching for a wait command. My problem is that I want to test a website with a embedded external map. This external map needs 3-5 seconds to load.

My commands:

open /Page/mysite.html
//Wait Command? (5 seconds)
ClickAndWait link=do something

Answer 1

Before the command clickAndWait add the following code so the script will wait until the specific link to be visible:

   <tr>
        <td>waitForVisible</td>
        <td>link=do something</td>
        <td></td>
    </tr>

The practice of using the wait commands instead of pause is most of the times more efficient and more stable.

Answer 2

For those working with ant, I use this to indicate a pause of 5 seconds:

<tr>
    <td>pause</td>
    <td>5000</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

That is, target: 5000 and value empty. As the reference indicates:

pause(waitTime)

Arguments:

• waitTime - the amount of time to sleep (in milliseconds)

Wait for the specified amount of time (in milliseconds)

Answer 3

In Chrome, For "Selenium IDE", I was also struggling that it doesn't pause. It will pause, if you give as below:

• Command: pause
• Target: blank
• Value: 10000

This will pause for 10 seconds.

Answer 4

Use the pause command. Set speed to fastest (Actions --> Fastest), otherwise it won't work.