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Young
Young

Reputation: 81

How to select a dropdownlist value using webdriver in python

The html source is below

<select id="ca_vdcs" class="pulldown small" name="vdc" style="display: none;">
<option>-- Select a vDC --</option>
<option>Platform-VDC-org</option>
</select>

I want to select the 'Platform-VDC-org', but the below code is not working.

select = browser.find_element_by_id('ca_vdcs')
select.find_element_by_xpath("//option[@value='Platform-VDC-org']").click()

Upvotes: 6

Views: 11723

Answers (1)

Mark Rowlands
Mark Rowlands

Reputation: 5453

You should try using the Select() class. It makes dealing with select elements much easier.

select = Select(browser.find_element_by_id("ca_vdcs"))
select.select_by_visible_text("Platform-VDC-org")

You can see the WebDriver API bindings in Python here:

http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html

The Select() class is at section 7.12. UI Support

Upvotes: 9

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