Select Drop Down - Selenium Webdriver

Question

I am creating practice tests on a demo site, however, I am having an issue with selecting a value from a drop down list, I am getting unable to locate element, however, it is the correct ID and I've tried by ID and CSS selector as well with no luck :( I will post HTML and Selenium code below:

HTML

<select id="dropdown_7" name="dropdown_7" class=" piereg_validate[required]"><option value="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</option> 

Ruby Code:

drop_list = @@wait.until { drop = @@driver.find_element :id => '#dropdown_7' drop if drop.displayed? drop.click } options=drop_list.find_element :id => '#dropdown_7' options.each do |i| if i.text == 'American Samoa' i.click break end 

Answer 1

The problem is that you are specifying the id as "#dropdown_7". While this is a CSS-selector that matches an element with id "dropdown_7", it will not match the id attribute.

It should just be:

drop = @@driver.find_element :id => 'dropdown_7' 

Answer 2

In java below is the way to select dropdowns

 Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("your id"))); dropdown.selectByVisibleText("option text here"); 

or

 dropdown.selectByIndex(1); 

or

 dropdown.selectByValue("value attribute of option"); 

So no need to click on option by using Select in webdriver.

Thank You, Murali

Answer 3

How I've implemented this in ruby is:

Selenium::WebDriver::Support::Select.new( @driver.find_element(:how, :what) ).select_by(:how, :what) 

Answer 4

Use JavaScript executor for clicking the options in the list.

public void javascriptclick(String element) { WebElement webElement=driver.findElement(By.xpath(element)); JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver; js.executeScript("arguments[0].click();",webElement); System.out.println("javascriptclick"+" "+ element); }