Selenium VBA select option input element

Question

I'm using Excel VBA, Selenium and Chrome.

Threse is a dropdownbox box and I'm trying to select an option. Html code is:

<div class="x-form-field-wrap x-form-field-trigger-wrap x-abs-layout-item x-trigger-wrap-focus" id="ext-gen437" style="width: 100px; left: 330px; top: 70px;">

<input maxlength="1" spellcheck="false" id="ext-comp-1233" name="CITTADINANZA"        class="x-form-text x-form-field x-field-uppercase x-trigger-noedit x-form-focus" readonly="" style="width: 75px;" />

<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAID/AMDAwAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" alt="" class="x-form-trigger x-form-arrow-trigger" id="ext-gen438" />

</div>

The dispalyed text options are "Si" and "No" but in Html code there are no options, index, value...(it's just an input element; the img element is the arrow you have to click for a dropdown)

I tried to fill the input element using:

driver.FindElementByCss("#ext-comp-1233").AsSelect.SelectByIndex
driver.FindElementByCss("#ext-comp-1233").AsSelect.SelectByValue
driver.FindElementByCss("#ext-comp-1233").AsSelect.SelectByText
driver.FindElementByCss("#ext-comp-1233").Sendkeys

but I recive the error: "Unexpected TagName Error. Expected=select Got=input"

...while Sendkeys doesn't work.

Do you have any idea?

Thanks :)

It seems that the dropdown element is dynamic. So it may not be a select element. You can try clicking on the down arrow image, wait for a second, and click on the drop down entry. You may first inspect the drop down after clicking on the image to see the real html code — Shalvin Abraham
– Shalvin Abraham, Commented Oct 2, 2015 at 11:32
@ShalvinAbraham Thank you for answer. After clicking on the image the input html code doesn't change, only change a bit the class code of div. I can click on the down arrow image and sendkey a downarrow but when I sendkey enter (for choose the option) is not working. — paolo.lrs
– paolo.lrs, Commented Oct 2, 2015 at 12:24
Did you try to inspect the option element ? I think it will be another div. — Shalvin Abraham
– Shalvin Abraham, Commented Oct 2, 2015 at 13:06
@ShalvinAbraham What/where is the option element? I can't find other hmtl elements than I posted ( — paolo.lrs
– paolo.lrs, Commented Oct 2, 2015 at 15:22
These dynamic elements work in such a way that, JavaScript is used to dynamically create elements. What you can try is, click on the dropdown (down arrow image) and once you see the options, right click on one of them and choose inspect element. Then, you will see more elements inside the input element, or other element. Can you check this out? — Shalvin Abraham
– Shalvin Abraham, Commented Oct 2, 2015 at 16:58

Bharath Atmakuri · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-05 09:31:27Z

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Try this:

obj.FindElementByXPath("xpath of element").AsSelect.SelectByText ("option text")

Note: driver - name of the object you've created for webdriver.

edited Jul 5, 2020 at 9:31

Bharath Atmakuri

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answered Oct 17, 2016 at 16:00

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FreeMan Over a year ago

This was enough to help me figure out what I needed, thanks!

Shalvin Abraham · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-03 06:58:15Z

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The solution is to click on the drop down image, and when the dynamically created divs are displayed, click on those divs.

answered Oct 3, 2015 at 6:58

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