Can’t How to select an option from the second Dropdownmenu using Selenium Python

Question

I’m a python newbie but recently tried to learn Selenium.

The webpage I’m using is: https://securereg3.prometric.com/Welcome.aspx?msg=EMExpSes

For some reason, it will not select “STEP2” from this drop down list, what should I do? Please help

This is my code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
import time

PATH = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get('https://securereg3.prometric.com/Welcome.aspx')
driver.find_element_by_id("masterPage_cphPageBody_rbnProfLisc").click()
prog = Select(find_element_by_id("masterPage_cphPageBody_ddlPrograms"))
time.sleep(1)
prog.select_by_visible_text("STEP2")

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 16 '20 at 05:08

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You miss driver. in this line:

prog = Select(find_element_by_id("masterPage_cphPageBody_ddlPrograms"))

It's should:

prog = Select(driver.find_element_by_id("masterPage_cphPageBody_ddlPrograms"))

answered Jun 16 '20 at 05:08

frianH

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 16 '20 at 08:34

The website https://securereg3.prometric.com/Welcome.aspx won't populate the <option> items within STEP 2 unless you select the options from the radiobutton and the drop-down-menu within STEP 1.

To click on the Radio Button with text as Academic, Professional Licensure & Certification, Government, and Corporate Programs and select the option A. Electrician ELECP and then to <select> the option UNITED STATES you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR:

driver.get('https://securereg3.prometric.com/Welcome.aspx')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input#masterPage_cphPageBody_rbnProfLisc"))).click()
select1 = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "select#masterPage_cphPageBody_ddlPrograms[name^='masterPage']"))))
select1.select_by_value("ELECP")
select2 = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "select#masterPage_cphPageBody_ddlCountry"))))
select2.select_by_visible_text("UNITED STATES")

Using XPATH:

driver.get('https://securereg3.prometric.com/Welcome.aspx')
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//input[@id='masterPage_cphPageBody_rbnProfLisc']"))).click()
select1 = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//select[@id='masterPage_cphPageBody_ddlPrograms']"))))
select1.select_by_value("ELECP")
select2 = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//select[@id='masterPage_cphPageBody_ddlCountry']"))))
select2.select_by_visible_text("UNITED STATES")

Note : You have to add the following imports :

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

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Can’t How to select an option from the second Dropdownmenu using Selenium Python

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