How to select a drop-down menu option value with Selenium (Python)

Question

I need to select an element from a drop-down menu.

For example:

<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>

First I have to click on it. I do this:

inputElementFruits = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//select[id='fruits']").click()

After that I have to select the good element, let us say Mango.

I tried to do it with inputElementFruits.send_keys(...) but it did not work.

Answer 1

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

Select the element and enumerate the options, selecting the option(s) you want. For example,

from selenium import webdriver

b = webdriver.Firefox()

b.find_element_by_xpath("//select[@name='element_name']/option[text()='option_text']").click()

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Comments

using Select class makes the problem much easier to solve, check out the below answer.

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It worked for me. Thank you.

Answer 2

Selenium presents 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')

Comments

Thanks, by importing the library for select class and using its in-built method select_by_visible_text() helped me.

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This was very easy to understand. Thank you.

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Thanks, it solved my problem.

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This is a great way to go and should be the de facto method.

Answer 3

For this, you can use a css selector 

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#fruits01 [value='1']").click()

Change the 1 in the attribute = value css selector to the value corresponding with the desired one.

Comments

I believe if you use select class, it would be a better way to solve this problem.

Answer 4

Try using the following:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
driver = webdriver.Ie(".\\IEDriverServer.exe")
driver.get("https://test.com")
select = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//input[@name='n_name']"""))
select.select_by_index(2)

Answer 5

To select a drop-down menu option value with Selenium (Python), firstly you need to import the Select class and then you need to create the instance of Select class. After completing these two steps you will need to create the instance of Select class, you can perform select methods on that instance to select an option from the dropdown list. 

See the code for the same below:-

from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select 

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

select_fr.select_by_index(0)