how to select by a partial text in Python - selenium

Question

How can I select a dropdown element by a part of its name? I want to select an option based on a DB values, but this values don't have the complete name of the dropdown element, is there any way to make selenium look for the option with my database value as a partial text?

    modelo = googleSheet.modelo.upper().strip()
    select = Select(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '/html/body/div/div/div/div[1]/form/fieldset[6]/div/ul/fieldset[3]/div/ul/fieldset[3]/div/ul/fieldset/div/ul/li/label'))))
    select.select_by_visible_text(modelo)

I the dropdown option I want to select is "Terrano II 2.7 xpto ol", but my data base value is just Terrano II 2.7

Thanks for the help

First thing is select only works with the Select tag. Next is you can use "//[contains(.,'{}')]".format("Terrano ll") to select options with that value. Or starts-with — Arundeep Chohan, Mar 31 '21 at 17:58
This is correct. 'Select' will work only with only with 'select' tag and 'option' tag as options in dropdown. — vitaliis, Apr 01 '21 at 17:39

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 31 '21 at 09:44

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What about if first you extract the dropdown text content and then you check if your db query is in text? something like this:

Selenium Select - Selecting dropdown option by part of the text

answered Mar 31 '21 at 09:44

Giovanni Frison

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I didn't downvote you. I am just trying to make the code work cause it's python and the solution is not, but thanks for the answer. I think it is going somewhere :) – Tooc Mar 31 '21 at 10:58
yes I know it is not python but most of the selenium command are the same (or almost). Therefore, I thought you could start from there.. – Giovanni Frison Mar 31 '21 at 11:05

vitaliis · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-01T17:46:23.367

driver.select_by_visible_text() already does strip(). You do not need it. Also, from this method definition:

Select all options that display text matching the argument. That is, when given "Bar" this would select an option like:
<option value="foo">Bar</option>
:Args:
 - text - The visible text to match against

So, you need to expect exactly the option that is visible. Another problem in your code is the way you pass the variable.

dropdown_option = "Some text you expect to see in the dropdown"
locator = driver.find_element_by_id("id")  # or any other locator
select = Select(locator)
        if locator is not None:
            for option in select.options:
                select.select_by_visible_text(dropdown_option)

This implementation makes debugging easier. For example you can print all the values from your dropdown before selecting the option you need.

If it takes a lot of time to dropdown to open, or other elements make your dropdown temporarily not visible, add a separate wait before selection.

from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

 wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
        wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located(
            (By.CSS_SELECTOR, "Unique css selector of the first option in dropdown")))

how to select by a partial text in Python - selenium

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