Unable to select text from dropdown - Gmail.com Month Dropdown

Question

Im also facing the same error. Unable to select Birthday, Gender & Location in gmail signup page. I'm using Selenium Webdriver.

Please find the below code for birthday.

new Select (driver.findElement(By.id(":0"))).selectByValue("January");

On executing the above code it gives me the below error

> Element should have been "select" but was "div".

Following is the complete code.

public class GmailCreate {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws InterruptedException
    {
        WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver(); 
        driver.get("http://gmail.com");
        //By genderDropdown = By.xpath("//*[@id='Gender']/div");
        driver.findElement(By.id("link-signup")).click();
        /*driver.findElement(By.id("FirstName")).sendKeys("ABC");
        driver.findElement(By.id("LastName")).sendKeys("XYZ");
        driver.findElement(By.id("GmailAddress")).sendKeys("abcx0429");
        driver.findElement(By.id("Passwd")).sendKeys("pass1word123");
        driver.findElement(By.id("PasswdAgain")).sendKeys("pass1word123");
        //new Select (driver.findElement(By.id(":0"))).selectByValue("January");
         //Select gender = new Select(driver.findElement(genderDropdown));
           // gender.selectByVisibleText("Male");*/

        //driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@id='BirthMonth']/div")).click();
       Thread.sleep(2000);
       // driver.findElement(By.id(":3")).click();


    /*  driver.findElement(By.id("BirthDay")).sendKeys("26");
        driver.findElement(By.id("BirthYear")).sendKeys("1988");
        driver.findElement(By.id("RecoveryPhoneNumber")).sendKeys("9876543210");
        driver.findElement(By.id("RecoveryEmailAddress")).sendKeys("[email protected]");

        if ( !driver.findElement(By.id("SkipCaptcha")).isSelected() )
        {
             driver.findElement(By.id("SkipCaptcha")).click();
             System.out.println("Marked");
        }
        else
        {
             System.out.println("Already Marked");
        }

        if (!driver.findElement(By.id("TermsOfService")).isSelected())
        {
            driver.findElement(By.id("TermsOfService")).click();
        }
        driver.findElement(By.id("submitbutton")).click();*/

        WebElement monthDropdown = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='goog-inline-block goog-flat-menu-button jfk-select goog-flat-menu-button-focused goog-flat-menu-button-hover']"));  

     // Select month
     Select month= new Select(monthDropdown);
     month.selectByVisibleText("March");

     // enter birth day       
     WebElement DayTbox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='BirthDay']"));
     DayTbox.clear();
     DayTbox.sendKeys("20");

     // Enter Birth Year 
     WebElement YearTbox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='BirthYear']")); 
     YearTbox.clear();
     YearTbox.sendKeys("2010");


    }
}

Answer 1

WebElement monthDropdown = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class='goog-inline-block goog-flat-menu-button jfk-select goog-flat-menu-button-focused goog-flat-menu-button-hover']"));  

// Select month
Select month= new Select(monthDropdown);
month.selectByVisibleText("March");

// enter birth day       
WebElement DayTbox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='BirthDay']"));
DayTbox.clear();
DayTbox.sendKeys("20");

// Enter Birth Year 
WebElement YearTbox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='BirthYear']")); 
YearTbox.clear();
YearTbox.sendKeys("2010");

Check for Gmail sign up, It works fine...

Answer 2

    // How old are you?
    Select Agefield = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("agefieldXpath")));
    Agefield.selectByVisibleText("26-35");
    Thread.sleep(2000);

    // What is your gender?
    Select gender = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("genderfieldXpath")));
    gender.selectByVisibleText("Male");

Try with this.. definitely it will works.

Answer 3

If you look at the page structure i.e. here gmail-Signup page, Birthday, Gender & Location is not more a dropdown with select tag. So if you are using select in WebDriver, you will get the above error. Please try replacing with the below code. It worked for me.

Birthday Field:
WebElement listbox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@id='BirthMonth']/div"));
listbox.click();

Then do the same for Gender & Location.

Note: Inspecting the element with F12 will give you a clear idea.

Answer 4

well this code will work..

    Actions action = new Actions(driver);

    action.moveToElement(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='BirthMonth']/div[1]"))).click().sendKeys(Keys.UP).sendKeys(Keys.ENTER).build().perform();

Answer 5

If this problem still actual. Try this:

driver.FindElement(By.XPath(".//*[@id='BirthMonth']/div[1]")).SendKeys("Feb")