select dropdown value in selenium without select class code example
Example 1: select dropdown selenium
How do you handle Select type of dropdown?
- If it is <select> we would have to use Select class from Selenium.
- Methods to select from dropdown:
- selectByVisibleText
- selectByValue
- selectByIndex
--> How do we verify which option is selected in a dropdown?
- If we want to get the currently selected option,
we use getFirstSelectedOption() method.
getFirstSelectedOption();
-> return type: currently selected option as a web element
--> .getOptions();
-> This method will return all of the options in the <select> web element.
-> return type: List<WebElement>
Example 2: python selenium dropdown without select
# Just found a very simple solution for this annoying problem
# Been looking around for days just to solve it, Selecting dropdowns without Select class
# Find your dropdown element by the following, finds the element in the dropdown named BRA
Dropdown_Element = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[text()='BRA']").click()
# Store the ActionChains class inside the actions variable
actions = ActionChains(driver)
# Click on the element using the click(on_element=)
actions.click(on_element=Dropdown_Element)
time.sleep(2)
actions.perform()
# Hopes this helped :)