Is there a way to make WatiN click a link before the page finishes loading

Question

We're using WatiN for testing our UI, but one page (which is unfortunately not under our teams control) takes forever to finish loading. Is there a way to get WatiN to click a link on the page before the page finishes rendering completely?

Answer 1

Here's the code we found to work:

IE browser = new IE(....);
browser.Button("SlowPageLoadingButton").ClickNoWait();
Link continueLink = browser.Link(Find.ByText("linktext"));
continueLink.WaitUntilExists();
continueLink.Click();

Answer 2

You should be able to leave out the call to WaitUntilExists() since WatiN does this internally when you call a method or property on an element (like the link.Click() in you rexample).

HTH, Jeroen van Menen Lead dev WatiN