How to select dropdown on Selenium using Python

Question

I'm trying to select country but somehow it's not working. The code below is what I did. It's not working properly.

<select name="state" class="form-control selectpicker">
                                        <option value=" ">Please select your state</option>
                                        <option>Alabama</option>
                                        <option>Alaska</option>
                                        <option>Arizona</option>
                                        <option>Arkansas</option>
                                        <option>California</option>
                                        <option>Colorado</option>
                                     </select>

Here what I did: browser.find_element_by_css_selector(".form-control.selectpicker [option='Alaska']").click()

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 03 '20 at 00:00

To select the <option> with text as Alaska you can use the following Locator Strategy:

Using xpath:

dropdown_menu = Select(browser.find_element_by_xpath("//select[@class='form-control selectpicker' and @name='state']"))
dropdown_menu.select_by_visible_text('Alaska')

Ideally, you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following Locator Strategy:

Using CSS_SELECTOR and in a single line:

Select(WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "select.form-control.selectpicker[name='state']")))).select_by_visible_text('Alaska')

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

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