How to select the item from the dropdown using Selenium and Java

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Having difficulty to select a item from drop down. HTML:

<div id="first4" class="ui-small ui-re-row-sapce">                          
<select name="srclang" id="srclang" data-placeholder="Type source language *" class="form-control del-change capturedata selectized" tabindex="-1" style="display: none;"><option value="90" selected="selected">English</option></select>

<input type="select-one" autocomplete="off" tabindex="" id="srclang-selectized" placeholder="Type source language *" style="width: 151px; opacity: 1; position: relative; left: 0px;">

Code trials:

Select SourceLanguageIs= new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='srclang-selectized']"))); 
SourceLanguageIs.selectByIndex(2); 
//SourceLanguageIs.selectByVisibleText("English"); // 
SourceLanguageIs.selectByValue("90");

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-30 09:18:07Z

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As per the HTML it seems the <select> node is having the attribute style="display: none;" so you can't directly access the <select> node.

You can pass the partial relevant character sequence i.e. English to the <input> tag and then click() on the element with text as English and you can use the following solution:

new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//input[@id='srclang-selectized']"))).sendKeys("English");
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//select[@id='srclang' and @name='srclang']/option[contains(., 'English')]"))).click();

answered Jan 30, 2019 at 9:18

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Ali · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-30 10:23:21Z

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Ignore the Select class because the 'select' tag line is invisible and Try the below code:

driver.findElement(By.id('srclang-selectized')).sendKeys("Option that you want to Select");

As it is an id so no need to write an XPath expression.

edited Jan 30, 2019 at 10:23

answered Jan 30, 2019 at 9:26

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undetected Selenium Over a year ago

select is not an attribute, perhaps select node.

Ali Over a year ago

@DebanjanB, Yeah, it is a tag.

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-30 10:49:06Z

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The following are the most common methods used on to select drop down list.

selectByVisibleText()
selectByValue()
selectByIndex()

Sample code to select the drop down as follows:

Select SourceLanguageIs= new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("srclang")));
SourceLanguageIs.selectByIndex(2); 
SourceLanguageIs.selectByVisibleText("English");
SourceLanguageIs.selectByValue("90");

Hopes it helped out .

edited Jan 30, 2019 at 10:49

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answered Jan 30, 2019 at 9:45

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