Selecting a certain value from dropdown using python with selenium

Question

I've written a script to select certain field from a webpage using python with selenium. There is a dropdown on that page from which I want to select "All". However, i tried many different ways with my script to make it but could not. Here is how the dropdown look like.

Html elements for the dropdown selection:

<select name="ctl00$body$MedicineSummaryControl$cmbPageSelection" onchange="javascript:setTimeout('__doPostBack(\'ctl00$body$MedicineSummaryControl$cmbPageSelection\',\'\')', 0)" id="ctl00_body_MedicineSummaryControl_cmbPageSelection">
        <option selected="selected" value="25">25</option>
        <option value="50">50</option>
        <option value="100">100</option>
        <option value="all">All</option>

    </select>

Scripts I've tried with:

from selenium import webdriver
import time

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('http://apps.tga.gov.au/Prod/devices/daen-entry.aspx')

driver.find_element_by_id('disclaimer-accept').click()
time.sleep(5)
driver.find_element_by_id('medicine-name').send_keys('pump')
time.sleep(8)
driver.find_element_by_id('medicines-header-text').click()
driver.find_element_by_id('submit-button').click()
time.sleep(7)

 #selection for the dropdown should start from here

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//select[@id="ctl00_body_MedicineSummaryControl_cmbPageSelection"]').click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//select//option[@value]').send_keys("All")

Alex Lucaci · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-24 17:53:50Z

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This will work for you:

#option1
select_obj = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath('//select[@id="ctl00_body_MedicineSummaryControl_cmbPageSelection"]'))
select_obj.select_by_visible_text('All')
#option2
select_obj = Select(driver.find_element_by_id('ctl00_body_MedicineSummaryControl_cmbPageSelection'))
select_obj.select_by_visible_text('All')

And don't forget to import Select with from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

You can read full documentation to find all Select methods here : https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/py/webdriver_support/selenium.webdriver.support.select.html

edited Jun 24, 2017 at 17:53

answered Jun 24, 2017 at 14:52

Alex Lucaci

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SIM Over a year ago

Thanks Alex Lucaci, for your answer. Unfortunately it throws the following error: raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element:

Alex Lucaci Over a year ago

Yes, I am sorry, I've updated my code, it should work now.

SIM Over a year ago

Follow this link to see the full error: "dropbox.com/s/qkeqjtcj0w2g06s/Error%20I%27m%20having.txt?dl=0"

Alex Lucaci Over a year ago

Oh yes, I didn't noticed that you are using the find_element_by_id and as a parameter you are passing the xpath so you have 2 choices: select_obj = Select(driver.find_element_by_id('ctl00_body_MedicineSummaryControl_cmbPageSelection')) or select_obj = Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath('//select[@id="ctl00_body_MedicineSummaryControl_cmbPageSelection"]')) . Let me know if you it's working.

techncafn33 · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-24 15:43:12Z

I initially thought of suggesting that you try to tab from an element that is before the dropdown select, similar to the concept in this code:

driver.find_element_by_id('<id of element before the dropdown select>').send_keys(Keys.TAB)
driver.find_element_by_id('//select[@id="ctl00_body_MedicineSummaryControl_cmbPageSelection"]').send_keys('AL')
driver.find_element_by_id('//select[@id="ctl00_body_MedicineSummaryControl_cmbPageSelection"]').send_keys(Keys.ENTER + Keys.TAB)

However, errors from the stack trace may show you that the dropdown select is not being found with that id. I believe that you should verify that the id that you are using is the correct id for that element, when you record the action of clicking on the dropdown select and selecting an option, by using the Record option in the Selenium IDE.

SIM · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-24 20:45:33Z

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Found the workaround finally. Here is what I did:

from selenium import webdriver
import time

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('http://apps.tga.gov.au/Prod/devices/daen-entry.aspx')

driver.find_element_by_id('disclaimer-accept').click()
time.sleep(5)
driver.find_element_by_id('medicine-name').send_keys('pump')
time.sleep(8)
driver.find_element_by_id('medicines-header-text').click()
driver.find_element_by_id('submit-button').click()
time.sleep(7)

driver.find_element_by_xpath('//select[@id="ctl00_body_MedicineSummaryControl_cmbPageSelection"]').click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath('.//option[@value="all"]').click()
time.sleep(10)

answered Jun 24, 2017 at 20:45

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