Selecting a value from a drop-down option using selenium python

Question

I want to select a value from a drop-down option. The html is as follows:

<span id="searchTypeFormElementsStd">

    <label for="numReturnSelect"></label>
    <select id="numReturnSelect" name="numReturnSelect">
        <option value="200"></option>
        <option value="250"></option>
        <option value="500"></option>
        <option selected="" value="200"></option>
        <option value="800"></option>
        <option value="15000"></option>
        <option value="85000"></option>
    </select>

</span

I tried as follows:

find_element_by_xpath("//select[@name='numReturnSelect']/option[text()='15000']").click()

What is wrong with it? Please help me!

Perhaps you Need `@value`, not `text()`? My xpath-foo is too weak to be sure. — Adrian Ratnapala, Mar 20 '14 at 06:02
Not sure in Python. But hope you have a Select Module as similar to Select class in Java — Harshavardhan Konakanchi, Mar 20 '14 at 06:05

score 45 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 08 '15 at 06:48

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Adrian Ratnapala is right and also i would choose id over name, so you can try the following :

find_element_by_xpath("//select[@id='numReturnSelect']/option[@value='15000']").click()

OR

find_element_by_css_selector("select#numReturnSelect > option[value='15000']").click()

OR

you can use select_by_value(value) :

Select(driver.find_element_by_css_selector("select#numReturnSelect")).select_by_value(15000).click()

Click here for more info on Select.

edited Nov 08 '15 at 06:48

JRodDynamite

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answered Mar 20 '14 at 06:18

Amith

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The first one worked, but I did not tried second one. Thanks! BTW what magic you did? – Mar 20 '14 at 06:23
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Hahaha its no magic, `option[text()='15000']` will check if any option tag has text `15000` but in your case `15000` was value attrubute. Anyways glad it Helped! i suggest you play around with the second and third as well, will help you explore selenium. – Amith Mar 20 '14 at 06:35
I hope you can answer my new question as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22525567/select-an-item-from-expandable-class-using-selenium-python – Mar 20 '14 at 06:54
Its a webpage, just lookup by CSS – aaa90210 Aug 06 '15 at 06:58

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 12 '17 at 13:24

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
driver = webdriver.Ie(".\\IEDriverServer.exe")
driver.get("https://test.com")
select = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//input[@name='n_name']"""))
select.select_by_index(2)
select.select_by_visible_text('Visible Text')
select.select_by_value('value')

It will work fine

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