SELECT option from dropdown using Selenium Python

Question

been dealing with a countries dropdown using Selenium Python;

here is the Div tag of the drop-down menu:

<div cdk-overlay-origin="" class="mat-select-trigger ng-tns-c95-29"><div class="mat-select-value ng-tns-c95-29" id="mat-select-value-1"><span class="mat-select-placeholder mat-select-min-line ng-tns-c95-29 ng-star-inserted"></span><!----><!----></div><div class="mat-select-arrow-wrapper ng-tns-c95-29"><div class="mat-select-arrow ng-tns-c95-29"></div></div></div><!---->

and here is the Div tag for the targeted option:

<div class="mat-select-value ng-tns-c95-29" id="mat-select-value-1"><!----><span class="mat-select-value-text ng-tns-c95-29 ng-star-inserted" style=""><span class="mat-select-min-line ng-tns-c95-29 ng-star-inserted">MAROKO</span><!----><!----></span><!----></div><div class="mat-select-arrow-wrapper ng-tns-c95-29"><div class="mat-select-arrow ng-tns-c95-29"></div></div>

and here's the specific Span Tag for the targeted option

<span class="mat-select-min-line ng-tns-c95-29 ng-star-inserted">MAROKO</span><!----><!---->

the code used to select an option from that dropdown is :

Country=browser.find_element(By.ID, 'mat-select-value-1') time.sleep(5) drop=Select(Country) time.sleep(5) drop.select_by_visible_text("MAROKO") 

output

Exception has occurred: UnexpectedTagNameException Message: Select only works on <select> elements, not on <div> File "C:\Users\test\form.py", line 31, in <module> drop=Select(Country) 

I went with drop.select_by_visible_text since I believe it's the only available option!

Imports used

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

I would appreciate any helpful comment.

Cheers

Tried this specifcly this;

WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[@id="mat-radio-2"]/label/span[1]/span[1][text()='MAROKO']"))).click() 

but it seems that there's a syntax error

Answer 1

You can use the selenium's Select() class only for html <select> tags. But this dropdown is implemented with <div>, so you can handle it just like html elements.
First you need to click the dropdown to expand the options and then click the option you need:

WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//div[@class="mat-select-trigger ng-tns-c95-29"]'))).click() WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, 'mat-select-value-1'))).click() 

I've created the locators using the html parts you provided. Perharps you will need to update them.