How to select a drop-down menu value with Selenium using Python?

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

For example:

<select name="fruits"> <option value="0">Choose your fruits:</option> <option value="1">Banana</option> <option value="2">Mango</option> </select> 

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

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

2) After that I have to select the good element, lets say Mango.

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

17 Answers

Selenium provides 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') 

See also:

• What is the correct way to select an using Selenium's Python WebDriver?

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

Just find the element and then enumerate the options, selecting the option(s) you want.

Here is an example:

from selenium import webdriver b = webdriver.Firefox() b.find_element_by_xpath("//select[@name='element_name']/option[text()='option_text']").click() 

You can read more in:

I hope this code will help you.

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select 

dropdown element with id

ddelement= Select(driver.find_element_by_id('id_of_element')) 

dropdown element with xpath

ddelement= Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath('xpath_of_element')) 

dropdown element with css selector

ddelement= Select(driver.find_element_by_css_selector('css_selector_of_element')) 

Selecting 'Banana' from a dropdown

1. Using the index of dropdown

ddelement.select_by_index(1)

2. Using the value of dropdown

ddelement.select_by_value('1')

3. You can use match the text which is displayed in the drop down.

ddelement.select_by_visible_text('Banana')

firstly you need to import the Select class and then you need to create the instance of Select class. After creating the instance of Select class, you can perform select methods on that instance to select the options from dropdown list. Here is the code

from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select select_fr = Select(driver.find_element_by_id("fruits01")) select_fr.select_by_index(0) 

As per the HTML provided:

<select name="fruits"> <option value="0">Choose your fruits:</option> <option value="1">Banana</option> <option value="2">Mango</option> </select> 

To select an <option> element from a html-select menu you have to use the Select Class. Moreover, as you have to interact with the drop-down-menu you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable().

To select the <option> with text as Mango from the dropdown you can use you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using ID attribute and select_by_visible_text() method:

  from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select select = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.ID, "fruits01")))) select.select_by_visible_text("Mango") 

• Using CSS-SELECTOR and select_by_value() method:

  select = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "select.select[name='fruits']")))) select.select_by_value("2") 

• Using XPATH and select_by_index() method:

  select = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "//select[@class='select' and @name='fruits']")))) select.select_by_index(2) 

I tried a lot many things, but my drop down was inside a table and I was not able to perform a simple select operation. Only the below solution worked. Here I am highlighting drop down elem and pressing down arrow until getting the desired value -

 #identify the drop down element elem = browser.find_element_by_name(objectVal) for option in elem.find_elements_by_tag_name('option'): if option.text == value: break else: ARROW_DOWN = u'\ue015' elem.send_keys(ARROW_DOWN) 

You don't have to click anything. Use find by xpath or whatever you choose and then use send keys

For your example: HTML:

<select name="fruits"> <option value="0">Choose your fruits:</option> <option value="1">Banana</option> <option value="2">Mango</option> </select> 

Python:

fruit_field = browser.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@name='fruits']") fruit_field.send_keys("Mango") 

That's it.

You can use a css selector combination a well

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 fruit.

In this way you can select all the options in any dropdowns.

driver.get("") print( "The title is : " + driver.title) inputs = Select(driver.find_element_by_css_selector('#year')) input1 = len(inputs.options) for items in range(input1): inputs.select_by_index(items) time.sleep(1) 

It works with option value:

from selenium import webdriver b = webdriver.Firefox() b.find_element_by_xpath("//select[@class='class_name']/option[@value='option_value']").click() 

I use this for all of my clicks and selecting and it always works. For a dropdown item just make sure the xpath is the actual value you want to select.

var = WebDriverWait(driver, explicit_wait_seconds).until( EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, self))) # added the click here. ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(var).click() perform_actions() actions.perform() # Reset was required to clear it. Might be patched now. actions.reset_actions() for device in actions.w3c_actions.devices: device.clear_actions() 

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

It will work fine

Dropdown WITHOUT <select>

This works for me every time I face a dropdown without <select> tags

# Finds the dropdown option by its text driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[text()='text of the option']") 

Import ActionChains module

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains 

Use ActionChains to click on the element

drp_element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[text()='text of the option']") action = ActionChains(driver) action.click(on_element=drp_element).perform() 

After going through a lot of posts like this one, I managed to figure out a solution that allowed me to select an item in a dropdown. I tried .send_keys, click(), and Select in various ways with no success. Ended up sending the click() command to the dropdown 3 times before clicking on the item in the dropdown.

dropMenu = browser.find_element_by_id('cmbDeviceType') dropMenu.click() dropMenu.click() dropMenu.click() deviceType = browser.find_element_by_id('cmbDeviceType_DDD_L_LBI16T0') deviceType.click() 

Definitely not super pretty, but it works.

Hope this helps someone. This was done with Python3.7.7 on Firefox 88.0.1.

The best way to use selenium.webdriver.support.ui.Select class to work to with dropdown selection but some time it does not work as expected due to designing issue or other issues of the HTML.

In this type of situation you can also prefer as alternate solution using execute_script() as below :-

option_visible_text = "Banana" select = driver.find_element_by_id("fruits01") #now use this to select option from dropdown by visible text driver.execute_script("var select = arguments[0]; for(var i = 0; i < select.options.length; i++){ if(select.options[i].text == arguments[1]){ select.options[i].selected = true; } }", select, option_visible_text); 

dropdown1 = Select(driver.find_element_by_name("fruits")) dropdown1.select_by_visible_text('banana') 

1. List item

public class ListBoxMultiple {

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { // TODO Auto-generated method stub System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "./drivers/chromedriver.exe"); WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver(); driver.get("file:///C:/Users/Amitabh/Desktop/hotel2.html");//open the website driver.manage().window().maximize(); WebElement hotel = driver.findElement(By.id("maarya"));//get the element Select sel=new Select(hotel);//for handling list box //isMultiple if(sel.isMultiple()){ System.out.println("it is multi select list"); } else{ System.out.println("it is single select list"); } //select option sel.selectByIndex(1);// you can select by index values sel.selectByValue("p");//you can select by value sel.selectByVisibleText("Fish");// you can also select by visible text of the options //deselect option but this is possible only in case of multiple lists Thread.sleep(1000); sel.deselectByIndex(1); sel.deselectAll(); //getOptions List<WebElement> options = sel.getOptions(); int count=options.size(); System.out.println("Total options: "+count); for(WebElement opt:options){ // getting text of every elements String text=opt.getText(); System.out.println(text); } //select all options for(int i=0;i<count;i++){ sel.selectByIndex(i); Thread.sleep(1000); } driver.quit(); } 

}