Selenium Select not working on dropdown element

Question

So I am trying to run the following code to select an option from a drop-down toolbar:

## Drop-down menu
time.sleep(5) # wait for element to load in page otherwise selenium won't be able to find it
element_dropdown = driver.find_element("id","conference-dropdowns")
element_dropdown.click()

# Select visible text
time.sleep(5)
select = Select(element_dropdown)
select.select_by_visible_text("Bulk Upload")

But then I get the following error:

UnexpectedTagNameException: Message: Select only works on <select> elements, not on <label>

How do I resolve this issue? Why am I getting this error? See structure below. Thanks so much in advance.

What are you trying to achieve? Testing, or you want to scrape the data? If scraping, post the full url. — Barry the Platipus
– Barry the Platipus, Commented Jul 21, 2022 at 22:19
@platipus_on_fire_333 I'm trying to create a program that will login to a site, navigate through a few toolbars and upload a CSV file after clicking "Bulk Upload". — mexicanRmy
– mexicanRmy, Commented Jul 21, 2022 at 22:22
If your end goal is to upload a file, you can achieve this with requests - you can login, then upload that file. — Barry the Platipus
– Barry the Platipus, Commented Jul 21, 2022 at 22:24
@platipus_on_fire_333 Oh cool! Could you send some resources on how to achieve this? I'm very new to Selenium, requests, etc. — mexicanRmy
– mexicanRmy, Commented Jul 22, 2022 at 18:14
stackoverflow.com/questions/11892729/… and stackoverflow.com/questions/22567306/… — Barry the Platipus
– Barry the Platipus, Commented Jul 22, 2022 at 18:16

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-21 22:27:40Z

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The desired element isn't within any html-select tag, but they are within <label> tag.

So you won't be able to use Select() class.

Solution

The click element with text as Bulk Upload you need to induce WebDriverWait for the element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following locator strategy:

Using XPATH:

WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//li[@class='dropdown-submenu']//label[@class='submenu' and contains(., 'Bulk Upload')]"))).click()

Note: You have to add the following imports :

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

answered Jul 21, 2022 at 22:27

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JaSON · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-21 22:26:28Z

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The Exception says everything: you can use Select class only with <select> object. Simply try to

click() on button to expand drop-down menu
wait for required option to be clickable
click() on option

answered Jul 21, 2022 at 22:26

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