Not able to click on webelement until the page loads completely

Question

i am using selenium page object model below is the problem scenario i am clicking on an element using below command

driver.findElement(By.xpath("xxxxxxxx")).click();

when code execute the above line , click has been performed in the browser and a new page starts loading but code stuck at the above line untill the whole page loads. i am not able to perform any operation on any webelemnet untill the page loads completely. below is the code:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='lll-menu-1']/div[1]/ul/li[4]/a"));

JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;

executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element);after this line code stuck here until the page loads completely

WebElement elem = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//img[@alt='Cool Racerback - regular']"));

elem.click();

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hi JeffC i am performing a click on an element 'WebElement elem = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//img[@alt='Cool Racerback - regular']")); elem.click(); after click() new page starts loading and my code stuck after click ,control is not navigated to the next instruction until the page loads completely. — Utkarsh Chaudhary
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thefabbulus thefabbulus · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-19T14:58:40

You can try with:

 WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
 wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("YOUR ELEMENT XPATH")));

Not able to click on webelement until the page loads completely

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