How to get selected option (Selenium & Python)

Question

I have a problem because I would like to get the selected option name: Option3 in this case. I want to use assert to check if value is selected correctly in this case. You can see a part of my page below:

<html>
	<body>
		<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="rich-toolbar " id="mainMenuToolbar" width="100%">
			<tbody>
				<tr valign="middle">
					<td class="rich-toolbar-item  " style=";">
						<form id="substituteForm" name="name" method="post" action="http://homepage/home.seam" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
							<select name="substituteForm:j_id158" size="1" onchange="document.getElementById(&#39;substituteForm:substituteSubmit&#39;).click();">
								<option value="0">Option0</option>
								<option value="1">Option2</option>
								<option value="2" selected="selected">Option3</option>
							</select>
						</form>
					</td>
				</tr>
			</tbody>
		</table>
	</body>
</html>

I used DevTool to copy XPath and I wrote a code:

element = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*   [@id='substituteForm']/select"))

and I have error message:

selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: Unable to locate element: //*[@id='substituteForm']/select

I tried many XPath combinations and it still doesn't work.

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-16 15:57:56Z

2

This seem to be timing issue, but not XPath

Try to use below code to wait until target select element appear in DOM:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait as wait

select = wait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//form[@id='substituteForm']/select")))
select.click()
selected_option = wait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//option[@selected='selected']")))
assert selected_option.text == "Option3"

edited Feb 16, 2017 at 15:57

answered Feb 16, 2017 at 15:52

Andersson

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