How to select option in drop down protractorjs e2e tests

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I am trying to select an option from a drop down for the angular e2e tests using protractor   Here is the code snippet of the select option    lt select id  locregion  class  create select ng-pristine ng-invalid ng-invalid-required  required    ng-disabled  organization id     undefined  ng-options  o id as o name for o in organizations  ng-model  organization parent id  gt       lt option value     selected  selected  gt  lt  option gt       lt option value  0  gt Ranjans Mobile Testing lt  option gt       lt option value  1  gt BeaverBox Testing lt  option gt       lt option value  2  gt BadgerBox lt  option gt       lt option value  3  gt CritterCase lt  option gt       lt option value  4  gt BoxLox lt  option gt       lt option value  5  gt BooBoBum lt  option gt   lt  select gt    I have tried   ptor findElement protractor By css  select option 1    click      This gives me the following error   An invalid or illegal string was specified Build info  version   2 35 0   revision   c916b9d   time   2013-08-12 15 42 01  System info  os name   Mac OS X   os arch   x86 64   os version   10 9   java version   1 6 0 65  Driver info  driver version  unknown  I have also tried   ptor findElement protractor By xpath   html body div 2  div div 4  div div div div 3  ng-include div div 2  div div organization-form form div 2  select option 3     click      This gives me the following error      ElementNotVisibleError  Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with   Command duration or timeout  9 milliseconds   Build info  version   2 35 0   revision   c916b9d   time   2013-08-12 15 42 01    System info  os name   Mac OS X   os arch   x86 64   os version   10 9   java version   1 6 0 65    Session ID  bdeb8088-d8ad-0f49-aad9-82201c45c63f   Driver info  org openqa selenium firefox FirefoxDriver   Capabilities   platform MAC  acceptSslCerts true  javascriptEnabled true  browserName firefox  rotatable false  locationContextEnabled true  version 24 0  cssSelectorsEnabled true  databaseEnabled true  handlesAlerts true  browserConnectionEnabled true  nativeEvents false  webStorageEnabled true  applicationCacheEnabled false  takesScreenshot true     Can anyone please help me with this problem or throw some light on what i might be doing wrong here

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You can select drop down options like this   element by xpath        id  locregion    option contains text    Ranjans Mobile Testing        click

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This is how i did my selection   function switchType typeName             dropdown   element By cssContainingText  option   typeName   click

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element by model  parent id    sendKeys  BKN01

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I ve been trawling the net for an answer on how to select an option in a model dropdown and i ve used this combination which has helped me out with Angular material   element by model  ModelName    click   element By xpath  xpathlocation    click      it appears that when throwing the code all in one line it could find the element in the dropdown   Took a lot of time for this solution I hope that this helps someone out

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The problem is that solutions that work on regular angular select boxes do not work with Angular Material md-select and md-option using protractor  This one was posted by another  but it worked for me and I am unable to comment on his post yet  only 23 rep points   Also  I cleaned it up a bit  instead of browser sleep  I used browser waitForAngular     element all by css  md-select    each function  eachElement  index        eachElement click                          select the  lt select gt      browser waitForAngular                    wait for the renderings to take effect     element by css  md-option    click         select the first md-option     browser waitForAngular                    wait for the renderings to take effect

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You can select dropdown options by value      locregion       value  1     click

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This is a simple one line answer in which angular has special locator which can help to select and index from list   element all by options  o id as o name for o in organizations    get Index  click

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We wrote a library which includes 3 ways to select an option   selectOption option  ElementFinder  Locator   string  timeout   number   Promise lt void gt   selectOptionByIndex select  ElementFinder   Locator   string  index  number  timeout   number   Promise lt void gt   selectOptionByText select  ElementFinder   Locator   string  text  string  timeout   number   Promise lt void gt    Additional feature of this functions is that they wait for the element to be displayed before any action on the select is performed   You can find it on npm  hetznercloud protractor-test-helper  Typings for TypeScript are provided as well

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Another way to set an option element   var setOption   function optionToSelect         var select   element by id  locregion         select click        select all by tagName  option    filter function elem  index            return elem getText   then function text                return text     optionToSelect                     then function filteredElements           filteredElements 0  click                   using the function setOption  BeaverBox Testing

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To select items  options  with unique ids like in here    lt select     ng-model  foo       ng-options  bar as bar title for bar in bars track by bar id  gt   lt  select gt    I m using this   element by css   value      neededBarId         click

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If none of the answer s above worked for you  try this works with async await too For selecting options by text let textOption    quot option2 quot  await element by whichever  YOUR DROPDOWN SELECTOR       getWebElement      findElement by xpath     option text    quot   textOption  quot         click     or by number let optionNumber   2 await element by whichever  YOUR DROPDOWN SELECTOR       getWebElement      findElement by xpath     option   optionNumber         click     Of course you may need to modify the xpath of child options Don t ask me why  but this is the only way I could automate my dropdowns  when I lost hope already

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We can create a custom DropDown class for this and add a method as   async selectSingleValue value  string            await this element element by xpath     option normalize-space          value           click            Also  to verify what value is currently selected  we can have   async getSelectedValues             return await this element    option checked   getText

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We wanted to use the elegant solution up there using angularjs material but it didnt work because there are actually no option   md-option tags in the DOM until the md-select has been clicked  So the  elegant  way didn t work for us  note angular material   Here is what we did for it instead  don t know if its the best way but its definately working now  element all by css  md-select    each function  eachElement  index        eachElement click                          select the  lt select gt      browser driver sleep 500                   wait for the renderings to take effect     element by css  md-option    click         select the first md-option     browser driver sleep 500                   wait for the renderings to take effect       We needed to have 4 selects selected and while the select is open  there is an overlay in the way of selecting the next select  thats why we need to wait 500ms to make sure we don t get into trouble with the material effects still being in action

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If below is the given dropdown-   x000D   x000D               lt select ng-model  operator  gt  x000D               lt option value  name  gt Addition lt  option gt  x000D               lt option value  age  gt Division lt  option gt  x000D               lt  select gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    Then protractorjs code can be-   x000D   x000D          var operators element by model  operator     x000D        operators     value Addition    click    x000D   x000D   x000D    Source-https   github com angular protractor issues 600

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Select the option by CSS property  element by model  organization parent id    element by css   value  1      click      or  element by css   locregion    element by css   value  1      click      Where locregion id   organization parent id model name  are the attributes of select element

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Another way to set an option element   var select   element by model  organization parent id     select     value  1     click

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To access a specific option you need to provide the nth-child   selector   ptor findElement protractor By css  select option nth-child 1     click

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---------- element all by id  locregion    then function Item        Item x     gt     x is  0 1 2 3 element you want to click   Item 0  click      first item    Item 3  click           fourth item   expect Item 0  getText    toEqual  Ranjans Mobile Testing

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I ve improved a bit the solution written by PaulL  First of all I fixed the code to be compatible with the last Protractor API  And then I declare the function in  onPrepare  section of a Protractor config file as a member of the browser instance  so it can be referenced form any e2e spec     onPrepare  function         browser  selectDropdownbyNum   function  element  optionNum             A helper function to select in a dropdown control an option         with specified number                 return element all by tagName  option    then          function options              options optionNum  click

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static selectDropdownValue dropDownLocator dropDownListLocator dropDownValue       let ListVal          WebLibraryUtils getElement  xpath  dropDownLocator  click         WebLibraryUtils getElements  xpath  dropDownListLocator  then function selectItem           if selectItem length gt 0                        for  let i  0 i lt  selectItem length i                                        if selectItem i   dropDownValue                                              console log selectItem i                          selectItem i  click

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You can try this hope it will work  element all by id  locregion    then function selectItem      expect selectItem 0  getText    toEqual  Ranjans Mobile Testing     selectItem 0  click      will click on first item   selectItem 3  click      will click on fourth item

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The below example is the easiest way   I have tested and passed in Protractor Version 5 4 2    Drop down selection  using option s visibility text    element by model  currency    element by css   value  Dollar      click     Or use this  it     isshort form for   By css   element by model  currency        value  Dollar     click          To select using index  var select   element by id  userSelect     select     value  1     click       To select using the index    means a shortcut to  By css   Full code   describe  Protractor Demo App   function        it  should have a title   function           browser driver get  http   www way2automation com angularjs-protractor banking           expect browser getTitle    toEqual  Protractor practice website - Banking App        element by buttonText  Bank Manager Login    click        element by buttonText  Open Account    click           Drop down selection  using option s visibility text    element by model  currency    element by css   value  Dollar      click           This is a short form    in short form for   By css        element by model  currency        value  Dollar     click           To select using index     var select   element by id  userSelect         select     value  1     click       To select using the index    means a shortcut to  By css     element by buttonText  Process    click        browser sleep 7500     wait in miliseconds     browser switchTo   alert   accept

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For me worked like a charm element by cssContainingText  option    BeaverBox Testing    click

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There s an issue with selecting options in Firefox that Droogans s hack fixes that I want to mention here explicitly  hoping it might save someone some trouble  https   github com angular protractor issues 480   Even if your tests are passing locally with Firefox  you might find that they re failing on CircleCI or TravisCI or whatever you re using for CI amp deployment  Being aware of this problem from the beginning would have saved me a lot of time

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Here s how I did it      select   click       select option       optionInputFromFunction         click       This looks useless but it slows down the click event    long enough to register a change in Angular  browser actions   mouseDown   mouseUp   perform

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Helper to set the an option element   selectDropDownByText function optionValue                element by cssContainingText  option   optionValue   click      optionValue  dropDownOption

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Maybe not super elegant  but efficient   function selectOption modelSelector  index        for  var i 0  i lt index  i             element by model modelSelector   sendKeys   uE015              This just sends key down on the select you want  in our case  we are using modelSelector but obviously you can use any other selector   Then in my page object model   selectMyOption  function  optionNum           selectOption  myOption   optionNum      And from the test   myPage selectMyOption 1

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Try this  it is working for me   element by model  formModel client         all by tagName  option         get 120       click

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Here is how to do it by either option value or index  This example is a bit crude  but it shows how to do what you want   html     lt mat-form-field id  your-id  gt       lt mat-select gt           lt mat-option  value   1  gt 1 lt  mat-option gt           lt mat-option  value   2  gt 2 lt  mat-option gt       lt  mat-select gt   lt  mat-form-field gt    ts   function selectOptionByOptionValue selectFormFieldElementId  valueToFind       const formField   element by id selectFormFieldElementId      formField click   then      gt         formField element by tagName  mat-select           getAttribute  aria-owns   then  optionIdsString  string    gt            const optionIds   optionIdsString split                    for  let optionId of optionIds              const option   element by id optionId              option getText   then  text    gt                if  text     valueToFind                  option click                                                             function selectOptionByOptionIndex selectFormFieldElementId  index       const formField   element by id selectFormFieldElementId      formField click   then      gt         formField element by tagName  mat-select           getAttribute  aria-owns   then  optionIdsString  string    gt            const optionIds   optionIdsString split                const optionId   optionIds index           const option   element by id optionId            option click                       selectOptionByOptionValue  your-id    1      selects first option selectOptionByOptionIndex  your-id   1     selects second option

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Select option by Index   var selectDropdownElement  element by id  select-dropdown     selectDropdownElement all by tagName  option           then function  options              options 0  click

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I had a similar problem  and eventually wrote a helper function that selects dropdown values   I eventually decided that I was fine selecting by option number  and therefore wrote a method that takes an element and the optionNumber  and selects that optionNumber   If the optionNumber is null it selects nothing  leaving the dropdown unselected    var selectDropdownbyNum   function   element  optionNum       if  optionNum       var options   element all by tagName  option              then function options           options optionNum  click                       I wrote a blog post if you want more detail  it also covers verifying the text of the selected option in a dropdown  http   technpol wordpress com 2013 12 01 protractor-and-dropdowns-validation

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An elegant approach would involve making an abstraction similar to what other selenium language bindings offer out-of-the-box  e g  Select class in Python or Java    Let s make a convenient wrapper and hide implementation details inside   var SelectWrapper   function selector        this webElement   element selector      SelectWrapper prototype getOptions   function         return this webElement all by tagName  option        SelectWrapper prototype getSelectedOptions   function         return this webElement all by css  option selected  selected          SelectWrapper prototype selectByValue   function value        return this webElement all by css  option value      value          click       SelectWrapper prototype selectByPartialText   function text        return this webElement all by cssContainingText  option   text   click          SelectWrapper prototype selectByText   function text        return this webElement all by xpath  option        text          click           module exports   SelectWrapper    Usage example  note how readable and easy-to-use it is    var SelectWrapper    require  select-wrapper    var mySelect   new SelectWrapper by id  locregion        select an option by value mySelect selectByValue  4       select by visible text mySelect selectByText  BoxLox      Solution taken from the following topic  Select - gt  option abstraction     FYI  created a feature request  Select -  option abstraction

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