How to create an xpath for random value selection from the drop down but I have to skip the selection placeholder value in Selenium Java

Question

Currently, I am facing the issue of selecting a random value from the drop-down list, but I don't want to select the placeholder value in Selenium Java. HTML Can you please help me select a random value from the list, but I don't want to select placeholder value 0. Thanks in advance.

I have tried with blow xpath, but sometimes it selects a placeholder value as well. //*[@id='ddlEnquirySource']/div/ul/li

Answer 1

Combine random number:

public static int getRandomNumber(int min, int max) {
    return (int) ((Math.random() * (max - min)) + min);
}

with selectByIndex:

WebElement selectElement = driver.findElement(By.Id("ddlEnquirySource"));
List<WebElmenet> selectOptions = selectElement.findElements(By.TagName("option"));
Select mySelect = new Select(selectElement);
mySelect.selectByIndex(getRandomNumber(1, selectOptions.size()));