How to click an item from non select drop-down menu with Selenium

Question

Trying to select other financial statements (default is income statement), as well as toggle between the second list of Annual/Quarterly. I can narrow down to get the attributes of the lists but I'm not able to interact with the list.

import time
import urllib.request
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver

symbol = 'bmo'
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://web.tmxmoney.com/financials.php?qm_symbol={}'.format(symbol))
time.sleep(2)
dropdown = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('a.qmod-dropdown_toggle.qmod-type-toggle + ul.qmod-dropdown-menu > li > a')

for option in dropdown:
    if option.get_attribute('innerText') == 'Balance Sheet':
        option.send_keys('Balance Sheet')

Does this answer your question? [How to select a drop-down menu value with Selenium using Python?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7867537/how-to-select-a-drop-down-menu-value-with-selenium-using-python) — Chris, Feb 25 '20 at 21:33
I wasn't able to use the same method. .click() didn't work and there's no 'select' class. I did noticed that inside the tag, the class value for the currently displayed option would have a value of " qmod-active", and when I select another option, the class of the de-selected option will be "" and the newly selected one will take on the value of " qmod-active", but I don't know how to change it (very new at this). — z.Rick, Feb 25 '20 at 21:45
I was able to change the class of 'Balance Sheet' using the following but the selection is still stuck in the original default of income statement. driver.execute_script("arguments[0].setAttribute('class',' qmod-active')", option) — z.Rick, Feb 25 '20 at 22:00

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '20 at 13:58

To select the dropdown option with text as Balance Sheet you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following Locator Strategies:

xpath:

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.get('https://web.tmxmoney.com/financials.php?qm_symbol=bmo')
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//h4[text()='Financials for Bank of Montreal']")))
driver.execute_script("window.scrollBy(0,600)")
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//a[@class='qmod-dropdown_toggle qmod-type-toggle']/span[text()='Income Statement']")))).perform()
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//ul[@class='qmod-dropdown-menu']//li/a[text()='Balance Sheet']"))).click()

How to click an item from non select drop-down menu with Selenium

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