select a dropdown box using Selenium python

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I am having trouble selecting a particular dropdown element via Selenium. The website is password protected so I have shared a snapshot of it. The attached snapshot shows what is visible when I right-click on the element and choose 'Inspect'. I am selecting XPATH which I have pasted in the pictures address bar to show what it is. Then I use the following line in my script to click it but it says element is not visible.

WebDriverWait(Chromedriver, 240).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="dateRangeType"]'))).click()

I have noticed that this element does not have a class to it. If that is the reason it is not working, how would I select an element with id, name but no class?

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-20 20:01:12Z

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I found the answer myself, the element was supposed to be clicked from the top of its hierarchy:

WebDriverWait(Chromedriver, 240).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH,'//*[@id="individual_member_det"]/div/div/div[6]/select'))).click()

edited Mar 20, 2018 at 20:01

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Andersson Over a year ago

Usually it's better to use Select() to handle such kind of drop-down menu. Also note that timeout 240 in WebDriverWait(Chromedriver, 240) means that your code will freeze for 4 minutes in case element not found... You might need to decrease this value

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