How to select a drop-down menu value with Selenium using Python?

Question

Selenium provides a convenient Select class to work with select -> option constructs:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('url')

select = Select(driver.find_element_by_id('fruits01'))

# select by visible text
select.select_by_visible_text('Banana')

# select by value 
select.select_by_value('1')

See also:

• What is the correct way to select an using Selenium's Python WebDriver?

Unless your click is firing some kind of ajax call to populate your list, you don't actually need to execute the click.

Just find the element and then enumerate the options, selecting the option(s) you want.

Here is an example:

from selenium import webdriver
b = webdriver.Firefox()
b.find_element_by_xpath("//select[@name='element_name']/option[text()='option_text']").click()

You can read more in:
https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/1355/unable-to-select-an-option-using-seleniums-python-webdriver

I hope this code will help you.

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

dropdown element with id

ddelement= Select(driver.find_element_by_id('id_of_element'))

dropdown element with xpath

ddelement= Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath('xpath_of_element'))

dropdown element with css selector

ddelement= Select(driver.find_element_by_css_selector('css_selector_of_element'))

Selecting 'Banana' from a dropdown

1. Using the index of dropdown

ddelement.select_by_index(1)

2. Using the value of dropdown

ddelement.select_by_value('1')

3. You can use match the text which is displayed in the drop down.

ddelement.select_by_visible_text('Banana')

firstly you need to import the Select class and then you need to create the instance of Select class. After creating the instance of Select class, you can perform select methods on that instance to select the options from dropdown list. Here is the code

from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select

select_fr = Select(driver.find_element_by_id("fruits01"))
select_fr.select_by_index(0)

As per the HTML provided:

<select id="fruits01" class="select" name="fruits">
  <option value="0">Choose your fruits:</option>
  <option value="1">Banana</option>
  <option value="2">Mango</option>
</select>

To select an <option> element from a html-select menu you have to use the Select Class. Moreover, as you have to interact with the drop-down-menu you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable().

To select the <option> with text as Mango from the dropdown you can use you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using ID attribute and select_by_visible_text() method:

  from selenium import webdriver
  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
  
  select = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "fruits01"))))
  select.select_by_visible_text("Mango")
  

• Using CSS-SELECTOR and select_by_value() method:

  select = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "select.select[name='fruits']"))))
  select.select_by_value("2")
  

• Using XPATH and select_by_index() method:

  select = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "//select[@class='select' and @name='fruits']"))))
  select.select_by_index(2)
  

I tried a lot many things, but my drop down was inside a table and I was not able to perform a simple select operation. Only the below solution worked. Here I am highlighting drop down elem and pressing down arrow until getting the desired value -

        #identify the drop down element
        elem = browser.find_element_by_name(objectVal)
        for option in elem.find_elements_by_tag_name('option'):
            if option.text == value:
                break

            else:
                ARROW_DOWN = u'\ue015'
                elem.send_keys(ARROW_DOWN)