I need to select an element from a drop-down menu.
For example:
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 < select.options.length; i++){ if(select.options[i].text == arguments[1]){ select.options[i].selected = true; } }", select, option_visible_text);
Selenium provides a convenient Select class to work with select -> 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:
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)
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)
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<WebElement> 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<count;i++){
sel.selectByIndex(i);
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
driver.quit();
}
}
You don't have to click anything. Use find by xpath or whatever you choose and then use send keys
For your example: HTML:
<select id="fruits01" class="select" name="fruits">
<option value="0">Choose your fruits:</option>
<option value="1">Banana</option>
<option value="2">Mango</option>
</select>
Python:
fruit_field = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='fruits']")
fruit_field.send_keys("Mango")
That's it.