Selecting options from Auto Complete Dropdown using selenium web driver in python

Question

I have to select options from a drop down on a page. I tried the below code but it is showing a syntax error. Can somebody help me with this?

web_element x = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="txtSearchPhone"]')
Select sel = new Select(x)
sel.select_by_value("Iphone")

I tries Web_element, WebElement too. But this is showing syntax error for the very first line.

web_element x = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="txtSearchPhone"]')
            ^
   SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Possible duplicate of [Using selenium (python) to select an option from a conditional dropdown](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35068238/using-selenium-python-to-select-an-option-from-a-conditional-dropdown) — JeffC, Aug 10 '17 at 16:51

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-10T16:51:24.390

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You can use the following code block to select the option Apple iPhone 6 128GB from the suggestions:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path= r"C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe")
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get('https://tradein.vodafone.co.uk/#/topmodel')
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@id='txtSearchPhone']").send_keys("Apple iPhone 6 128GB")
WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//li[@class='ui-menu-item']/a[contains(@id, 'ui-id-')][text()='Apple iPhone 6 128GB']")))
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//li[@class='ui-menu-item']/a[contains(@id, 'ui-id-')][text()='Apple iPhone 6 128GB']").click()

edited Aug 10 '17 at 16:51

answered Aug 10 '17 at 14:54

undetected Selenium

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I am still getting an error, 'Message: Select only works on ' – sky_bird Aug 10 '17 at 15:02
The error says it all. The element returned by `driver.find_element_by_id("txtSearchPhone")` is an `input` tag **not a select tag**. How can you apply `Select sel = new Select(x)` on it? – undetected Selenium Aug 10 '17 at 15:06
can you share the relevant `HTML` or the `url` if it is a public one? – undetected Selenium Aug 10 '17 at 15:09
https://tradein.vodafone.co.uk/#/topmodel . I am entering Apple iPhone 6 128GB in the search box and it appears as a dropdown. I want to select that. – sky_bird Aug 10 '17 at 15:57
Thanx a lot!!:) – sky_bird Aug 10 '17 at 17:06

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 10 '17 at 14:32

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what you're typing is not valid Python. Are you looking at an actual Python example?

## not valid Python code.
web_element x = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="txtSearchPhone"]')
Select sel = new Select(x)
sel.select_by_value("Iphone")

what you need to do is find the select box...

select_box = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="yourSelectBoxId"]')

than iterate your select box...

for i in select_box:
    if i.text == "some text":
        i.click();

Before all of that, you probably need to spend some time learning the Python language.

answered Aug 10 '17 at 14:32

Chris Hawkes

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Yeah, i got that. Can i directly have Iphone as an option, instead of creating a loop? – sky_bird Aug 10 '17 at 14:42
Not that I'm aware of. Some dropdowns these days are loaded when they are clicked, it really depends on the site. Most of the time, I need to iterate the select box values to select the right text or value which matches what I'm looking for. – Chris Hawkes Aug 10 '17 at 14:45
Its showing an error of 'Webelement is not iterable' – sky_bird Aug 10 '17 at 14:49
that's because you must have selected an element that was not a select box. – Chris Hawkes Aug 10 '17 at 15:09
yes, it was a search box rather than a drop down box – sky_bird Aug 10 '17 at 17:06
I got another answer..so, not this time! – sky_bird Aug 11 '17 at 06:40

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 10 '17 at 14:33

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Python is a Dynamically typed language, you don't need to specify the type of the variable when you declare a variable.

a=10 creates a int and

name="hello world" creates a string

answered Aug 10 '17 at 14:33

Gaurang Shah

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Thanx, got that!. But that hasn't solved my problem. – sky_bird Aug 10 '17 at 14:43

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