How to get selected value from drop-down which is disabled in Selenium

Question

There is a drop-down on my screen which shows some selected value and it is disabled. I need the selected value from the drop-down list to put some assertions in Selenium.

How to get the selected value when drop-down is disbaled? enter image description here

I tried using below code:

Select billCycle = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[contains(@id,'BILL_CYC_CD')]")));
String billCycleValue = billCycle.getFirstSelectedOption().getText();

But I am getting below exception:

java.lang.AssertionError: org.openqa.selenium.StaleElementReferenceException: stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document
  (Session info: chrome=110.0.5481.178)

Answer 1

getFirstSelectedOption()

getFirstSelectedOption() returns the first selected option in this select tag (or the currently selected option in a normal select).

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This usecase

To print the selected value from the drop-down list you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using cssSelector and id attribute:

  WebElement billCycle = new Select(new WebDriverWait(driver, Duration.ofSeconds(10)).until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("select#BILL_CYC_CD")))).getFirstSelectedOption();
  System.out.println(billCycle.getText());
  

• Using xpath and name attribute:

  WebElement billCycle = new Select(new WebDriverWait(driver, Duration.ofSeconds(10)).until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//[@name='BILL_CYC_CD']")))).getFirstSelectedOption();
  System.out.println(billCycle.getText());
  

Answer 2

You are currently trying to get first option from disabled select.

Try instead getting all of the options from dropdown:

List<String> billCycleValues = billCycle.getOptions();