Is There any alternative for Thread.sleep?

[padmajam@orioninc.com]

I have 2 drop down. By selecting one value from the first drop down, second drop down value will be populated.
Here I have to put a Thread.sleep(2000) after selecting value from first drop down other wise it is throwing exception for not getting the id of second drop down.
Is there any alternative for Thread.sleep here. 
Note: Its not a page load event

[ccoxMaster]

I know it still uses Sleep, but you could do a waitForElementPresent command.  This will check if the element is there every second for 60 seconds.  

 for (int second = 0;; second++) {
    if (second >= 60) Assert.Fail("timeout");
    try
    {
        if (IsElementPresent(By.Id("link"))) break;
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {}
    Thread.Sleep(1000);
}

[rohit13Master]

You can use implicit wait
       

Code:

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60,TimeUnit.SECONDS );

[akbbhatt]

I would go with explicit wait approach here. You can explicitly wait till an element is present using WebDriverWait class. 
For more info check this documentation tab at: "docs.seleniumhq.org" search for "Explicit and Implicit Waits"

Regards,
Anil.

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