Selecting from dropdown-selenium

Question

How can I get Selenium to select from an option value from a dropdown ?

The HTML is below:

<select name="cboProxyMember" id="idProxyMember" onchange="selectMember(); return false">
 <option value="29">
 Text - Fullers Inns
 <option value="8840">
 Text - Turks Head

I have selected the element with no problem, using:

 var selectproxy = Driver.Instance.FindElement(By.Id("idProxyMember"));
 selectproxy.Click();

But how do I select the option ?

I have tried a find element by name and tagname but neither work.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '17 at 07:00

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Sorry for posting this late, Below code example will solve the issue, selecting from the dropdown.

var selectproxy = Driver.Instance.FindElement(By.Id("idProxyMember"));
selectproxy.Click();
var SelectOption = new OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.SelectElement(selectproxy);
selectElement.SelectByText(<Define your option name which you want to 
select>);

For example: selectElement.SelectByText("Turks Head");

answered Aug 03 '17 at 07:00

Pankaj Katkar

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Yeah! The only answer in C#! – Jack Miller Nov 22 '18 at 09:14

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 16 '14 at 14:08

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This is an example in Python as I'm not familiar with the C# bindings, my apologies.

from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select

selectproxy = Select(driver.find_element_by_id("idProxyMember"))
selectproxy.select_by_visible_text("Text - Fullers Inns")
selectproxy.select_by_value("29")

answered Apr 16 '14 at 14:08

Mark Rowlands

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+1, the idea is the same in C# though - it's called the `SelectElement` within the `OpenQA.Selenium.Support` namespace. – Arran Apr 16 '14 at 14:49

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 09 '16 at 12:27

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Select select = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("idProxyMember")));
select.deselectAll();
select.selectByVisibleText("Fullers Inns");
select.selectByValue("29");

answered Mar 09 '16 at 12:27

Kumar

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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This posting describes how to select an option from a dropdown using C#. The initial IWebElement you locate must be converted to a Select element before you can select options from it. Select a value from drop down using Selenium WebDriver C#

Hope this helps!

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

Community

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answered Apr 16 '14 at 13:18

E02190

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Try and avoid linking to tutorials/websites without a small sample of code as links can move or be deleted in the future. – ScottMcGready Apr 16 '14 at 13:39

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 04 '15 at 07:04

   Correct you cant select by this because in your HTML,

It shows "onchange="selectMember();", Means ON selecting the any item from dropdown complete page has been changed. Thats why you have to use the switch to that Frame before selecting any value from dropdown.

driver.switchTo().frame(name_or_id);

Now select the value from dropdown

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 05 '15 at 14:56

Sample statements to open browser, load URL and select value from dropdown

static WebDriver driver;
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","C:\\(Path)\\IEDriverServer.exe");
driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.manage().window().maximize();

driver.get("EnterURLHere");          
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30,TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Select value1 = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("idProxyMember")));    
value1.selectByVisibleText("29");    //Select Character from dropdown list

Selecting from dropdown-selenium

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