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I am creating a selenium test with java. I want to automize a dropdown menu in a dialogue. The xpath of the dropdown menu is:

/html/body/div[8]/div/div/form/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div/select

My problem is that I cant select an element from the dropdown menu. I used:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until

and ExpectedCondition to select an element. Can you help me to find a way to select an element from the drop-down.

Could you also provide the (html) definition of the element? — Volokh, Jan 14 '21 at 12:13
I cant share the code or an url, because it is a secret enterprise application — tobias, Jan 14 '21 at 12:42
Check this out https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65714687/how-to-select-a-value-from-dynamic-searchbox-in-selenium-webdriver-java — pburgr, Jan 14 '21 at 13:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 14 '21 at 13:10

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You need to first click the dropdown button and then find the the button you want to select from the dropdown and then click on it.

answered Jan 14 '21 at 13:10

yashetty29

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 14 '21 at 15:29

To select one of the select-options from a html-select tag you need to induce WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using id and selectByIndex():

new Select(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("selectID")))).selectByIndex(1);

Using cssSelector and selectByVisibleText():

new Select(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("selectCssSelector")))).selectByVisibleText("OptionText");

Using xpath and selectByValue():

new Select(new WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("selectXpath")))).selectByValue("OptionValue");

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