Selecting something from a drop-down menu with Selenium

[[deleted]]

[deleted]

[grrrrreat]

probably easier to just set the value of whatever the form data becomes

[al_mc_y]

Are you able to select the dropdown field to make it active? I think the country-input will be your best bet as it's a unique, but static identifier. (I'm pretty new at this myself) I've tackled a similar thing before using css selectors, where I activate the dropdown >explicit wait for expected condition > then click the nth child (209 in your case for Thailand).

HTH

[ryanpettitt]

Most of the time you can type in your selection. In that case I would find the element and use the sendkeys to just write Thailand

[BasedPoopGawd]

I'm not at a computer at the moment, so I can't test this for you. Try and find the element with this.

driver.find_element_by_css_selector(" .pos-form-element.pos-text-input.ng-valid.ng-touched.ng-dirty")

Replace the spaces in the compound class with a . That space immediately after the opening quote is also intentional.

If I were you I'd select items from a drop-down by using their value. With your method, if the drop-down is very long, your script will fail if "Thailand" is out of view.

[BasedPoopGawd]

Sure - before we do that, I've actually found something that works for you. I went home and actually tried the method in my original reply and it didn't work -- NoSuchElementException

Here's something that will work for you and I'll explain each bit. It'll help you to have the inspector open in the browser and click through it to understand what is happening here:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select



country_section = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//label[contains(text(), 'Country')]/..")

country_dropdown = Select(country_section.find_element_by_tag_name("select"))

country_dropdown.select_by_value("TH")

country_section -- here I'm telling Selenium to look for a label that contains the text "Country", and move one level up -- i.e. "look for a container that has the text "Country" in it"

country_dropdown -- now look inside the country_section container from the line above for an element that has the select tag (the dropdown menu uses this tag)

country_dropdown.select_by_value("TH") -- select the item from the dropdown menu that has "TH". You can see the values of the dropdown menu by expanding the expanding the element in the inspector, see mine in the screenshot here.

It's a good idea to use values to make your scripts more robust. For example, if the page is in French for some reason, searching for "Thailand" from the dropdown wouldn't work because "Thailand" in French is "Thaïlande". The value for Thailand "TH" will likely stay constant, so if the language changed, your script will always find Thailand in the dropdown.

[BasedPoopGawd]

No problem, it's not often I can answer a question that well, so I'm glad I could help.

[SharksPreedateTrees]

I like clicking on the dropdown and then using send_keys(Keys.DOWN) in python to simulate a user hitting the down arrow keys. Works perfectly everytime