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Kerny
Kerny

Reputation: 433

Selecting a drop-down option using Selenium IDE

I'm new to Selenium and having a difficult time selecting options from a drop down list (trying to select the second option).

Here is the HTML that I'm working with:

<div id="applicationReasonTypeIDContainer" class="appfield">

    <label id="applicationReasonTypeIDLabel" for="applicationReasonTypeID">Application Reason</label>
    <select name="appstart_international1:applicationReasonTypeID" id="applicationReasonTypeID" class="AppStart dropdown required" title="Application reason">
<option value="0">&#160;</option>
<option value="1">New Application</option>
<option value="2">Additional location</option>
<option value="3">Owner change</option>

I'm using XPath checker to find the XPath, and it's giving me this but it doesn't work when I try and click or select command

id('applicationReasonTypeID_listbox')/x:li[2]

What should the proper Target be for finding an option like this using XPath?

Thanks Kindly!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7218

Answers (3)

Kerny
Kerny

Reputation: 433

I actually figured out the problem - it's an issue with Kendo UI not supporting drop-downs properly. Basically the workaround is the click the drop-down arrow, then use sendKeys and point to the same Target as the drop-down with the value being whatever item you want from the list, then clicking the drop-down again. This worked for me, hopefully it helps somebody else!

Upvotes: 1

Joe Ratzer
Joe Ratzer

Reputation: 18569

What's wrong with either of the following?

new SelectElement(driver.FindElement(By.Id("CustomerDropDown"))).SelectByText("Nationwide");
new SelectElement(driver.FindElement(By.Id("CustomerDropDown"))).SelectByIndex(1);

Upvotes: 1

Scott Helme
Scott Helme

Reputation: 4799

If you know the text that will be in the field this is how I do it:

new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("applicationReasonTypeID"))).selectByVisibleText("New Application");

Hope that might help.

edit to add correct id and text from code provided.

Upvotes: 1

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