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sulav_lfc

Reputation: 782

Selenium select option

I have multiple select option as:

<select id="auto_year" class="element" onchange="loadMakes(this.value);" name="auto_year">
 <option value="0000">- Year -</option>
 <option value="2014">2014</option>
 <option value="2013">2013</option>
 <option value="2012">2012</option>
 <option value="2011">2011</option>
</select>

<select id="auto_make" class="element" onchange="loadModels(document.getElementById('auto_year').value, this.value);;" name="auto_year">
 <option value="0000">- Make-</option>
</select>

Initially, the option inside the select id = "auto_make" is empty. But as i select one of the option from the select id ="auto_year", the option appears. I'm facing problem in selecting values. My code is :

from selenium import webdriver  
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re

browser = webdriver.Firefox()  
browser.get(certain_url)  
html_source = browser.page_source  

yearoption_val = browser.find_element_by_id('auto_year')
for yearoption in yearoption_val.find_elements_by_tag_name('option'):
 if yearoption.text == '- Year -':
  continue
 else:
  yearoption.click()
  itemmake_val = browser.find_element_by_id('auto_make')
  for itemmake in itemmake_val.find_elements_by_tag_name('option'):
   if (itemmake.text == r'\- Make \(\d+ items\) \-' or '- Model -'):
    continue
  else:
   itemmake.click()

The problem with the code is it selects 2014 and moves into 2013 without looking for option in id = auto_make for 2014. Any help or suggestions would be really helpful.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 961

Answers (2)

KTR
KTR

Reputation: 271

I was struggling with the same problem 2 weeks ago. I tried a number of different options and ended up with the method below. The issue was click() or Select() did make the selection but failed to set the value. The only thing you might be missing is sending a key to the select object.

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

def select_option_from_a_dropdown(self, select_object, option_value):
    """
     To select options in "<select>" in selenium we need to select the option first and then need
    to send ENTER key on the select.
    """
    options = select_object.find_elements_by_tag_name("option")
    for option in options:
        self.log.info(option.text)
        if option.text.upper() == option_value.upper():
            option.click()
    select_object.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

If you are facing the same problem as I did, you just need to perform yearoption_val.send_keys(Keys.RETURN) after yearoption.click().

**English is not my first language. Please edit the answer as appropriate

Upvotes: 1

Robbie Wareham
Robbie Wareham

Reputation: 3428

Have you tried instantiating a Select object? Here is an example from the Selenium site in Python;

# available since 2.12
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
select = Select(driver.find_element_by_tag_name("select"))
select.deselect_all()
select.select_by_visible_text("Edam")

Upvotes: 1

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