How to Retrieve the values from a drop down using selenium-WebDriver?

Question

I am using below script to retrieve specific item from drop down but it's not working.

Select  salTitle =  new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("s2id_QuickEnquiryForm_salutation")));
 salTitle.selectByVisibleText("Mr.");

showing below Error in console "Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.UnexpectedTagNameException: Element should have been "select" but was "div""

I am using selenium + javascript.can anyone here suggest a method to select an item from a dropdown menu.

I welcome any input!

please find the Below attched Images for HTML,Source Code.

Answer 1

I'm not sure how "yours" dropdown works, but for me "working solution" in similar case is:

Field.SendKeys(123)
for (j=0; ; j++)
{
if (Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("li[j] element")).GetElementText().Equals(should_to_select_value);
   {
       if (Driver.FindElement(By.XPath("li[j] element")).Click();
       break;
   }
}

Also, I'm sorry for example not in javascript...

Answer 2

There are two problems

1. Looks like your search option is wrong. So better to use xpath for that.
2. You can just sendkeys to dropdown like in example below

Example:

client.findElement({ xpath: '//*[@id="form-tab-1"]/div/div[1]/select' }).sendKeys(Mr.);

Answer 3

try this if drop down has search functionality

driver.findelement(by.xpath("your drop down arrow button or select button path")).click
driver.findelement(by.xpath("your drop down search text box path")).sendkeys("values ");
driver.findelement(by.xpath("your drop down search text box path")).sendkeys(Keys.arrowdown, keys.enter);

Answer 4

I was getting same error but I resolved it with the below piece of code,

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='BirthMonth']/div")).sendKeys("June");
Thread.sleep(30000);
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='BirthMonth']/div")).sendKeys("July");
Thread.sleep(30000);
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='BirthMonth']/div")).sendKeys("August");
Thread.sleep(30000);

Finally I am able to get "August" month automatically.

Answer 5

For selecting a drop-down value, I have one of the working solutions.take the XPath of the dropdown and edit the drop-down XPath like below

(....)/select/option[@value=' ']

' ' - indicates that enter your option to select from drop-down

Now by using this XPath use the click() method to select an option from drop-down

I hope it is useful for you.

Please mark it correct if it works for you