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Matteo Felici
Matteo Felici

Reputation: 1107

Python Selenium: select option

I have to select an option from a dropdown menu, the HTML code is

<select id="formIdVeic" style="width: 250px; display: none;" class="combobox-f combo-f" comboname="formIdVeic">
    <option value="" selected="selected"></option>
    <option value="E">TARGA ESTERA </option>
    <option value="J">TARGA FILOBUS </option>
    <option value="L">TELAIO </option>
    <option value="TN" selected="selected">TARGA ITALIANA NUOVO FORMATO </option>
    <option value="TS">TARGA ITALIANA SPECIALE </option>
    <option value="TV">TARGA ITALIANA VECCHIO FORMATO </option>
    <option value="X">TARGA PROVA </option>
    <option value="Y">TARGA PROVVISORIA </option>
</select>

I want to select the "TV" option. The solution I've come to is

from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select
...
a=Select(browser.find_element_by_xpath('//select[@id="formIdVeic"]'))
a.select_by_visible_text("TARGA ITALIANA VECCHIO FORMATO").click()

or

a.select_by_value("TV").click()

where browser is a web browser driver. Both the solutions return an exception:

ElementNotVisibleException: element not visible: 
Element is not currently visible and may not be manipulated

Where am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 915

Answers (1)

Eugene
Eugene

Reputation: 1895

You can't select the non visible element in Selenium. The source for the visibility check -

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/master/javascript/atoms/dom.js#L577

Upvotes: 1

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