How to get selenium to wait for ajax response?

Question

How can I get selenium to wait for something like a calendar widget to load? Right now I am just doing a Thread.sleep(2500) after exporting the testcase to a junit program.

Answer 1

I would use

waitForElementPresent(locator)

This will wait until the element is present in the DOM.

If you need to check the element is visible, you may be better using

waitForElementHeight(locator)