{"id":11179,"date":"2022-09-26T10:47:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T05:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-select-custom-dropdown-list-element-from-selenium\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T10:47:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T05:17:52","slug":"solved-how-to-select-custom-dropdown-list-element-from-selenium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-select-custom-dropdown-list-element-from-selenium\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] how to select custom dropdown list element from selenium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-22230614\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"22230614\" data-parentid=\"22228418\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/selenium-python.readthedocs.org\/en\/latest\/navigating.html#filling-in-forms\">currently recommended method<\/a> of selecting an item from a dropdown menu is to use the Select class. Here&#8217;s a quick example:<\/p>\n<pre><code>from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select\nfrom selenium import webdriver\n\nbrowser = webdriver.Firefox()\nbrowser.get(\"file:\/\/\/C:\\testing\\\\test.html\")\n\nelement = browser.find_element_by_id(\"id_country\")\nselect = Select(element)\nselect.select_by_visible_text(\"Armenia\")\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>However, the HTML you posted doesn&#8217;t seem to work; I just get an empty dropdown box. You&#8217;ll need to fix that in order to be able to use the above code. For example:<\/p>\n<pre><code>&lt;html&gt;&lt;body&gt;\n&lt;select id=\"id_country\" name=\"country\"&gt;\n&lt;option&gt;Select Your Country&lt;\/option&gt;\n&lt;option&gt;Afghanistan&lt;\/option&gt;\n&lt;option&gt;Armenia&lt;\/option&gt;\n&lt;\/select&gt;\n&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This works fine for me, producing a dropdown box with three options &#8211; <code>Select Your Country<\/code>, <code>Afghanistan<\/code> and <code>Armenia<\/code>. Pointing the above Python script at this file correctly selects <code>Armenia<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: Here&#8217;s a quick-and-dirty Python script that successfully selects Armenia from the list of countries:<\/p>\n<pre><code>from selenium import webdriver\n\nbrowser = webdriver.Firefox()\nbrowser.get(\"http:\/\/ds.arm.com\/rfq\/\")\n\ncountry = \"Armenia\"\n\ndropdown_path = \"id('content')\/form\/fieldset\/div[5]\/div[2]\/div\/a[2]\"\ncountry_path = \"id('content')\/form\/fieldset\/div[5]\/div[2]\/div\/ul\/li[contains(text(), '%s')]\" % country\n\nbrowser.find_element_by_xpath(dropdown_path).click()\nbrowser.find_element_by_xpath(country_path).click()\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>It makes use of XPaths to locate the dropdown arrow and then the <code>&lt;li&gt;<\/code> tag containing &#8220;Armenia&#8221;. I don&#8217;t claim that it&#8217;s especially intuitive, or neat to look at, but it works. They&#8217;ve really over-complicated things with that website, so I&#8217;m not sure if the simpler <code>Select<\/code> method can be made to work here. In general, if you can locate an element using an id (<code>find_element_by_id<\/code>), class (<code>find_element_by_class<\/code>) or name (<code>find_element_by_name<\/code>), you should do so. None of those work here, unfortunately \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I can recommend the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/xpath-checker\/\">XPath Checker<\/a> extension for Firefox to help you find similar XPaths for the other form elements. Good luck, I really don&#8217;t envy you having to work with that site!!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">16<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved how to select custom dropdown list element from selenium <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The currently recommended method of selecting an item from a dropdown menu is to use the Select class. 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