How to select a drop-down menu value with Selenium using Python

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I need to select an element from a drop-down menu   For example     lt select id  fruits01  class  select  name  fruits  gt     lt option value  0  gt Choose your fruits  lt  option gt     lt option value  1  gt Banana lt  option gt     lt option value  2  gt Mango lt  option gt   lt  select gt    1  First I have to click on it  I do this    inputElementFruits   driver find element by xpath    select id  fruits     click     2  After that I have to select the good element  lets say Mango   I tried to do it with inputElementFruits send keys      but it did not work

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You can use a css selector combination a well

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#fruits01 [value='1']").click()

Change the 1 in the attribute = value css selector to the value corresponding with the desired fruit.

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In this way you can select all the options in any dropdowns   driver get  https   www spectrapremium com en aftermarket north-america    print   The title is        driver title   inputs   Select driver find element by css selector   year     input1   len inputs options   for items in range input1        inputs select by index items      time sleep 1

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List item   public class ListBoxMultiple    public static void main String   args  throws InterruptedException          TODO Auto-generated method stub     System setProperty  webdriver chrome driver      drivers chromedriver exe        WebDriver driver new ChromeDriver        driver get  file    C  Users Amitabh Desktop hotel2 html     open the website     driver manage   window   maximize          WebElement hotel   driver findElement By id  maarya      get the element      Select sel new Select hotel    for handling list box       isMultiple     if sel isMultiple             System out println  it is multi select list              else          System out println  it is single select list                select option     sel selectByIndex 1     you can select by index values     sel selectByValue  p     you can select by value     sel selectByVisibleText  Fish      you can also select by visible text of the options       deselect option but this is possible only in case of multiple lists     Thread sleep 1000       sel deselectByIndex 1       sel deselectAll           getOptions     List lt WebElement gt  options   sel getOptions         int count options size        System out println  Total options    count        for WebElement opt options      getting text of every elements         String text opt getText            System out println text                    select all options     for int i 0 i lt count i             sel selectByIndex i           Thread sleep 1000              driver quit

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The best way to use selenium webdriver support ui Select class to work to with dropdown selection but some time it does not work as expected due to designing issue or other issues of the HTML   In this type of situation you can also prefer as alternate solution using execute script   as below  -  option visible text    Banana  select   driver find element by id  fruits01     now use this to select option from dropdown by visible text  driver execute script  var select   arguments 0   for var i   0  i  lt  select options length  i     if select options i  text    arguments 1    select options i  selected   true        select  option visible text

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Selenium provides a convenient Select class to work with select - gt  option constructs   from selenium import webdriver from selenium webdriver support ui import Select  driver   webdriver Firefox   driver get  url    select   Select driver find element by id  fruits01       select by visible text select select by visible text  Banana      select by value  select select by value  1     See also    What is the correct way to select an  using Selenium s Python WebDriver

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As per the HTML provided   lt select id  quot fruits01 quot  class  quot select quot  name  quot fruits quot  gt     lt option value  quot 0 quot  gt Choose your fruits  lt  option gt     lt option value  quot 1 quot  gt Banana lt  option gt     lt option value  quot 2 quot  gt Mango lt  option gt   lt  select gt   To select an  lt option gt  element from a html-select menu you have to use the Select Class  Moreover  as you have to interact with the drop-down-menu you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element to be clickable    To select the  lt option gt  with text as Mango from the dropdown you can use you can use either of the following Locator Strategies   Using ID attribute and select by visible text   method  from selenium import webdriver from selenium webdriver support ui import WebDriverWait from selenium webdriver common by import By from selenium webdriver support import expected conditions as EC from selenium webdriver support ui import Select  select   Select WebDriverWait driver  10  until EC element to be clickable  By ID   quot fruits01 quot      select select by visible text  quot Mango quot     Using CSS-SELECTOR and select by value   method  select   Select WebDriverWait driver  10  until EC element to be clickable  By CSS SELECTOR   quot select select name  fruits   quot      select select by value  quot 2 quot     Using XPATH and select by index   method  select   Select WebDriverWait driver  10  until EC element to be clickable  By CSS SELECTOR   quot   select  class  select  and  name  fruits   quot      select select by index 2

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firstly you need to import the Select class and then you need to create the instance of Select class  After creating the instance of Select class  you can perform select methods on that instance to select the options from dropdown list  Here is the code  from selenium webdriver support select import Select  select fr   Select driver find element by id  fruits01    select fr select by index 0

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I tried a lot many things  but my drop down was inside a table and I was not able to perform a simple select operation  Only the below solution worked  Here I am highlighting drop down elem and pressing down arrow until getting the desired value -            identify the drop down element         elem   browser find element by name objectVal          for option in elem find elements by tag name  option                if option text    value                  break              else                  ARROW DOWN   u  ue015                  elem send keys ARROW DOWN

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I hope this code will help you   from selenium webdriver support ui import Select   dropdown element with id  ddelement  Select driver find element by id  id of element      dropdown element with xpath  ddelement  Select driver find element by xpath  xpath of element      dropdown element with css selector  ddelement  Select driver find element by css selector  css selector of element      Selecting  Banana  from a dropdown   Using the index of dropdown   ddelement select by index 1    Using the value of dropdown   ddelement select by value  1     You can use match the text which is displayed in the drop down    ddelement select by visible text  Banana

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from selenium webdriver support ui import Select driver   webdriver Ie     IEDriverServer exe   driver get  https   test com   select   Select driver find element by xpath      input  name  n name        select select by index 2    It will work fine

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It works with option value   from selenium import webdriver b   webdriver Firefox   b find element by xpath    select  class  class name   option  value  option value     click

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You don t have to click anything  Use find by xpath or whatever you choose and then use send keys  For your example  HTML    lt select id  fruits01  class  select  name  fruits  gt       lt option value  0  gt Choose your fruits  lt  option gt       lt option value  1  gt Banana lt  option gt       lt option value  2  gt Mango lt  option gt   lt  select gt    Python   fruit field   browser find element by xpath    input  name  fruits     fruit field send keys  Mango     That s it

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Unless your click is firing some kind of ajax call to populate your list  you don t actually need to execute the click   Just find the element and then enumerate the options  selecting the option s  you want   Here is an example   from selenium import webdriver b   webdriver Firefox   b find element by xpath    select  name  element name   option text    option text     click     You can read more in   https   sqa stackexchange com questions 1355 unable-to-select-an-option-using-seleniums-python-webdriver

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