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Reputation: 23

Python Selenium How to Select from Dropdown?

I was testing my code over: https://semantic-ui.com/modules/dropdown.html

I wrote the following code in Python3 which finds all drop-downs in a given webpage and selects the last option for each drop-down:

dropdowns = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, '//select[@class="ui dropdown"]')
print(str(len(form_dropdowns)))
for drop_down in form_dropdowns:
    driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", drop_down)
    options = drop_down.find_elements(by=By.TAG_NAME, value='option')
    print(str(len(options)))
    driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", options[len(options) - 1])
time.sleep(100)

I see the following printed on screen:

2
3
3

Which means 2 drop-downs were found, both with 3 options to select from.

BUT I don't see any value being changed in the UI, why is that?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 106

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 193078

Although it seems OP's approach to select the last option using the following line of code is working,

 driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", options[len(options) - 1])

I'm totally against the idea of selecting the last option.

Ideally to interact with any element we must be using the Select() class and use either among the option index, option value or option text to choose the desired <option>.

As an example,

  • Using select_by_value():

    Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "xpath_select_element")))).select_by_value("value")

  • Using select_by_visible_text():

    Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "xpath_select_element")))).select_by_visible_text("text")

  • Note : You have to add the following imports :

    from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

Upvotes: 1

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