Selenium and Powershell drop down menu select

Question

Selenium WebDriver, using Chrome and Powershell. I'm trying to choose and click the 'en' value, from the drop down of the language menu.

Here is the HTML Code:

<select id="language_select" name="language_select" class="form-control" onchange="ls.change();">
<option value="en" title="English">English</option>
<option value="fr" title="French">French</option>
</select>

Using java, that code will be as follow:

WebElement langmenu = driver.findElement(By.id("language_select"));
Select selectMonth = new Select(langmenu);
selectMonth.selectByVisibleText("en");

But I'm struggling to accomplish the same using Powershell, So far, I've manage to understand how to search by Id and store it in a variable, using Powershell:

$ChromeDriver = New-Object -TypeName OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver

$ChromeDriver.Navigate().GoToURL('https://myserver/login/')

$langmenu = $ChromeDriver.FindElementById("language_select")

But I don't understand how to create a new select object, and choose the 'en' value, so I can use the selectByVisibleText or selectByIndex methods on the the select object.

Answer 1

Since Selenium has bindings for C# as well, it is fairly doable to be able to construct your Powershell code depending on those bindings, as @Niels pointed out in the other answer.

But if your goal is to run Selenium tests by using Powershell, I would suggest taking a look at the following library: selenium-powershell

An example for what you're trying to achieve:

# Start a Chrome
$Driver = Start-SeChrome

# Open URL
Enter-SeUrl https://myserver/login/ -Driver $Driver

# Find element by id 
$Element = Find-SeElement -Driver $Driver -Id "language_select"

# Select by value
Set-SeSelectValue -By Value -value 'en' -Element $Element

While I didn't personally played too much with it, it seems pretty well documented and, equally important in my opinion, actively maintained.

Answer 2

I think something like this might work:

$SelectElement = [OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.SelectElement]::new($langmenu)
$SelectElement.SelectByVisibleText("en")

Example from Powershell Selenium select a dropdown menu with FindElementByCssSelector.