selenium web driver accessing list box values

Question

I am facing problem with Selenium web driver in accessing List box Values.

Check the image:

I am able to paste value and pass the class name of list which i want to select, basically i have to select every time the very first option which is displayed in the list

 1   driver.get('https://my.maerskline.com/schedules/vessel')
 2   button = driver.find_element_by_id("s2id_b-vesselCode")   
 3   button.click()        
 4   button1 = driver.find_element_by_id("s2id_autogen1_search")
 5   button1.send_keys(Vessel_name)        
 6   button3 = driver.find_element_by_id("select2-results-dept-0 select2-result select2-result-selectable")
 7   button3.click()
 8   button2 = driver.find_element_by_id("schedulesByVesselSearchButton")
    button2.click()

Line 6 gives me below error

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element:
{"method":"id","selector":"select2-results-dept-0 select2-result
select2-result-selectable"}   (Session info: chrome=55.0.2883.87)  
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.26.436362 (5476ec6bf7ccbada1734a0cdec7d570bb042aa30),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64)

Any idea how I can get this done? Any more information needed let me know. Thanks

updated Code

if Vessel_name != "":
        #driver.get('https://my.maerskline.com/vessels?searchTerm={0}'.format(Vessel_name))
        print(Vessel_name)

        driver.get('https://my.maerskline.com/schedules/vessel')
        button = driver.find_element_by_id("s2id_b-vesselCode")   
        button.click()        
        button1 = driver.find_element_by_id("s2id_autogen1_search")
        button1.send_keys(Vessel_name)       
        button3 =driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#select2-results-1>li:nth-child(1)")
        button3.click()
        #button2 = driver.find_element_by_id("schedulesByVesselSearchButton")
        #button2.click()
        try:



        soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source)

Cathal · Answer 1 · 2017-01-11T14:26:25.820

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You should be locating the element by its class name. The element in the image you provided does not have any id.

Give this xpath a go:

//ul[@id='select2-results-1']/li[@‌class='selec‌t2-results-dept-0 select2-result select2-result-selectable select2-highlighted']

If you are sure you always want to select the first li, you can make the xpath alot tidier by referencing its index:

(//ul[@id='select2-results-1']/li)[1]

edited Jan 11 '17 at 14:26

answered Jan 11 '17 at 13:03

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apologies - i am searchig by class name only and the error is – Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 11 '17 at 13:33
Message: invalid selector: Compound class names not permitted (Session info: chrome=55.0.2883.87) (Driver info: chromedriver=2.26.436362 (5476ec6bf7ccbada1734a0cdec7d570bb042aa30),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64) – Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 11 '17 at 13:33
If there is more then one class name assigned to an element, you cannot use the collection of class names in selenium. this is known as a compound class name. So you need to be more specific with your locator. xpath or css would be a better fit here. – Cathal Jan 11 '17 at 13:35
cool, if you get stuck..post your attempt here and ill help out. – Cathal Jan 11 '17 at 13:42
button3 = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='select2-drop']/ul[@id='select2-results-1']/li[@class='select2-results-dept-0 select2-result select2-result-selectable select2-highlighted']") – Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 11 '17 at 14:12
we have div with id select2-drop and then
– Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 11 '17 at 14:14
Error - unable to locate element :( – Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 11 '17 at 14:14
first normal code is giving me same error, but second code is not giving error ,it is not helping in clicking the vessel name though, it is unable to click on search button...and error is - Message: unknown error: Element – Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 11 '17 at 15:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

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as this is drop down with value you should user select class to identify the web-element

you can refer below link to solve this issue :-

Selenium - Python - drop-down menu option value

edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

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answered Jan 11 '17 at 13:25

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Can we ? i dont think so because in my HTML there is no option or select tag used its only

Er Gaurav Chhabra

Jan 11 '17 at 13:35

Mesut GUNES · Answer 3 · 2017-01-12T11:58:42.677

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You are calling find_element_by_id but giving class name. You should use element_by_css_selector("#select2-results-1 > li:nth-child(2)") for second option.

"#select2-results-1 > li:nth-child(1)" >> MAJESTIC   
"#select2-results-1 > li:nth-child(2)" >> MAJESTC MAERSK   
"#select2-results-1 > li:nth-child(3)" >> NORTHERN MAJESTC

Check the following

driver.get('https://my.maerskline.com/schedules/vessel')
button = driver.find_element_by_id("s2id_b-vesselCode")   
button.click()        
button1 = driver.find_element_by_id("s2id_autogen1_search")
button1.send_keys(Vessel_name)        
button3 = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#select2-results-1 > li:nth-child(2)")
button3.click()
button2 = driver.find_element_by_id("schedulesByVesselSearchButton")
button2.click()

check this code works:

>>> driver.button = driver.find_element_by_id("s2id_b-vesselCode")
>>> button = driver.find_element_by_id("s2id_b-vesselCode")
>>> button.click()
>>> button1 = driver.find_element_by_id("s2id_autogen1_search")
>>> button1.send_keys(Vessel_name)
>>> button1.send_keys("majestic")
>>> button3 = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#select2-results-1 > li:nth-child(2)")
>>> button3.click()
>>> button2 = driver.find_element_by_id("schedulesByVesselSearchButton")
>>> button2.click()
>>> driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".muted.scheduleVesselHeader").text
u'Port Terminal Arrival Voyage Departure'
>>> driver.find_element_by_css_selector("tbody > tr:nth-child(2)").text
u'Rotterdam\nAPM 2 Terminal Maasvlakte II 15 Jan 2017, 06:00 649W | 649W 17 Jan 2017, 05:00'

edited Jan 12 '17 at 11:58

answered Jan 11 '17 at 14:24

Mesut GUNES

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apologies - i am searchig by class name only and the error is – Er Gaurav Chhabra 52 mins ago Message: invalid selector: Compound class names not permitted (Session info: chrome=55.0.2883.87) (Driver info: chromedriver=2.26.436362 (5476ec6bf7ccbada1734a0cdec7d570bb042aa30),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64) – Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 11 '17 at 14:27
now i am trying to use xpath because there is no other way around – Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 11 '17 at 14:28
did you try the answer? – Mesut GUNES Jan 11 '17 at 14:29
i did try on class and id getting same error - selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: – Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 11 '17 at 14:55
also if i pass this argument in html we have more than one class with same name,isn't that create a problem here – Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 11 '17 at 15:20
@ErGauravChhabra css should be unique. check the updated answer: `"#select2-results-1 > li:nth-child(2)"` – Mesut GUNES Jan 11 '17 at 21:47
same error again, is there anything in html which allow the tags to be hidden even though they are present ? – Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 12 '17 at 10:44
Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"#select2-results-1 > li:nth-child(1)"} – Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 12 '17 at 11:01
after searching same example online i removed spaced between class name and li now its running without error but its not selecting list value ... why this is hapening – Er Gaurav Chhabra Jan 12 '17 at 11:16
@ErGauravChhabra added shell output. It works. Hope you accept the answer. – Mesut GUNES Jan 13 '17 at 14:26

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